Sergei Gureev
Team Lead at Verda
Espoo, Finland
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Top SchoolSergei Gureev is a pragmatic engineering leader with 10 years of experience building cloud and backend systems, now leading a Cloud Provisioning team in Espoo. He combines hands‑on development with team leadership, shipping efficient solutions from embedded sensor control to cloud provisioning and observability. Sergei is an active open-source contributor—improving projects like the Tegola vector tile server and the Zola static site generator—and has implemented practical features such as WebDAV sync for a popular Android outliner. Known for preferring small, elegant fixes over complexity, he also brings an uncommon mix of low‑level instrumentation experience and production-grade backend engineering. Trained as an IT specialist (MTech/BTech), he enjoys digging into how things work and "hitting buttons until it is done."
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Moscow State Technological University "Stankin"
English, lojban, Russian, Finnish
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Github Skills (33)
kotlin10
markdown10
caching10
postgresql10
static-site-generator10
go10
markdown-it10
android10
params10
mobile10
rust10
webdav10
ui-design9
android-sdk9
vector-tiles9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
go-spatial/tegola
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Tegola is a Mapbox Vector Tile server written in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sergei implemented several features related to query parameters and caching within the Tegola project. They disabled caching for maps that utilize custom parameters and added the ability to handle query parameters in the PostGIS provider. The user also refactored code to move the parameter replacement function to the provider package and introduced tests for parameter replacement functionality. These changes enhanced the flexibility and functionality of the tile serving capabilities.
golangmvtmapboxwkbtile
getzola/zola
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 8 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sergei primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the Zola static site generator. Their work included allowing underscores in site paths, fixing clippy lint warnings, resolving issues with taxonomy current paths and sitemap generation, and implementing an orientation transformation based on EXIF data for images. They also added sorting by slug functionality. These changes suggest a focus on improving core functionality and addressing edge cases within the project.
cmseverythingstatic-siterustblog-engine
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