Summary
Sergei Zimakov is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 18 years of hands-on engineering and management experience, specializing in cloud-native architectures, ML-driven product improvements, and high-performing team building. He has led end-to-end technical strategy through a successful company exit, driven an 18% revenue uplift via an AI solution, and managed complex post-merger integrations and cloud migrations (Heroku → Kubernetes) with production-grade CI/CD and canary deployments. Comfortable both as a hands-on architect and an executive, Sergei has deep backend and systems experience across C++, Ruby, Java, PostgreSQL and distributed messaging, gained building high-load telecom and consumer platforms. He is drawn to socially impactful projects and brings a pragmatic blend of technical depth, process design, and mentorship that consistently improves reliability, developer experience and business outcomes. Based in Russia, he is open to full-time, part-time or contract work and pairs strategic vision with a knack for reducing operational costs and troubleshooting time.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI)
Russian, English