Sergej Popov
Head Of Engineering at Just Eat Takeaway.com
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSergej Popov is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems and engineering organisations at Just Eat Takeaway.com, where he progressed from senior engineer to Head of Engineering. He specializes in designing systems that endure scale and complexity—prioritizing useful, trusted, and durable data and ML products rather than architectural theatre. Sergej stays close to the code and architecture to challenge assumptions, foster ownership, and cultivate teams that make context-aware decisions with autonomy and accountability. His background includes introducing event sourcing, message-driven integrations, and cloud-native patterns (SQS, S3, NServiceBus) to improve scalability and observability. Based in London with a BSc in Software Engineering from Kingston University, he blends hands-on technical depth with a strategic view of long-lived systems and teams.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science with Honours, Software Engineering at Kingston University
English, Russian, Lithuanian
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Github Skills (160)
spotify-api10
custom-keyboard10
editor10
credentials10
electron10
typescript10
verification10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
pause10
microsoft10
scanning10
keyboard-shortcuts9
secrets9
devsecops9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Sergej-Popov/SpotifyControls
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
Simple Play/Pause controls for Spotify Web App
Contributions:19 commits, 7 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 11 months
pausespotifyspotify-webspotify-web-apiwebapp
justeat/ts-jsonschema-builder
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
Fluent TypeScript JSON Schema builder.
Contributions:26 commits, 13 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
typescript-json-schemajson-typescriptbuilderschema-builderfluent
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