Sergei Zhirnov
Senior Data Engineer
Espoo, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolSergei Zhirnov is a Senior Data Engineer based in Espoo, Finland with a decade of experience building scalable telemetry and data pipelines for high-throughput time-series systems. He has driven telemetry infrastructure work at ICEYE, replacing legacy parsers and benchmarking multiple databases to support terabytes of satellite data, and previously led backend and real-time market-data pipeline efforts at Cindicator. Comfortable across the stack, he combines Python, Kafka, FastAPI/Django, async patterns and orchestration tools to turn noisy, high-frequency feeds into reliable APIs and visualizations (Grafana). Sergei’s background uniquely blends computer science engineering with advanced study in neuroscience, reflecting a data-driven, analytical approach to system design and anomaly detection. He’s known for pragmatic system architecture decisions and cross-disciplinary collaboration with hardware teams to operationalize complex telemetry.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Neuroscience, Master of Science - MS, Neuroscience at Aalto UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Russian, English, German
Github Skills (54)
python10
python-telegram-bot10
genetic10
aiml10
telegram10
telegram-bot10
chatbot10
feature-selection9
feature-engineering9
parameter-tuning9
genetic-programming9
automated-machine-learning9
random-forest9
automl7
gradient-boosting7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
korcky/fastapi-admin
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Starlette admin site to manage crud operations, abit like Django
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes in 9 months
admin-siteadmindjangocrudstarlette
korcky/aTES
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Asynchronous architecture studying project
Contributions:15 commits, 8 PRs, 9 pushes in 28 days
studyingarchitectureasynchronous
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