Sergey Akentev
Mobile Build & Release Engineer at Mapbox
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolSergey Akentev is a Mobile Build & Release Engineer based in Helsinki with 9+ years of experience automating CI/CD and mobile workflows across iOS and Android. He has built end-to-end release pipelines and infrastructure for large teams and SDKs, doubled build and Apple Silicon speeds, and created quality metrics and automated Release Train systems that measurably improved stability and modularity. As a former founder of Nicegram he scaled a high‑traffic Telegram iOS app to millions of users and led custom Fastlane CI/CD, WebRTC builds and backend services, blending product and ops expertise. Sergey also contributes to notable open-source Telegram bot projects (pyTelegramBotAPI, aiogram), adding features like message editing, payments, and webhook improvements, reflecting strong backend and DevOps chops. He pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring and public speaking, often sharing practical automation patterns at conferences.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
English
Github Skills (12)
regular-expression10
telegram-bot-api10
bot-framework10
api10
aiogram10
python10
apidoc10
asyncio10
node-telegram-bot-api9
webhooks9
internationalization8
payment7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
eternnoir/pyTelegramBotAPI
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Python Telegram bot api.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 16 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sergey primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Python Telegram bot API. Their work involved adding support for new features like message deletion and video notes, as well as integrating payment methods. These additions included modifications to the API helper and type definitions, enhancing the bot's capabilities. The user's efforts expanded the API's features and aligned it with updated Telegram Bot API functionalities.
telegram-botapipythonpython-telegrambot
aiogram/aiogram
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
aiogram is a modern and fully asynchronous framework for Telegram Bot API written in Python using asyncio
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sergey made several contributions to the `aiogram/aiogram` repository, focusing on improving the Telegram bot framework. They implemented a regular expression commands filter and created an example demonstrating its usage. The user also fixed caption parsing issues and added new message editing functions (edit_caption, edit_media, edit_reply_markup). Furthermore, the user improved the webhook handling and updated the i18n example.
pythonbotasynchronous-frameworkaiohttptelegram
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