Sergey Talov
Staff Software Engineer at The Trade Desk
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSergey Talov is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years building high‑performance, low‑latency distributed systems and identity platforms across enterprise and SaaS environments. He has progressed from solo contributor to architect and tech lead, driving multi-year, cross-team projects at Atlassian and now The Trade Desk while mentoring engineers to raise their craft. Sergey’s deep JVM expertise (Java, Kotlin, Scala), microservices design, and performance tuning is complemented by hands-on knowledge of OAuth2, DynamoDB and a broad AWS stack. He uniquely blends security and authentication subject-matter expertise with practical experience optimizing SQL and NoSQL workloads under heavy load. Based in Sydney, he excels at turning complex, privacy- and security-sensitive requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer science, Master's degree Computer science at Yaroslavl Demidov State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (13)
comment-system10
java-agent9
privacy8
disqus8
asynchronous8
opml8
java8
kotlin7
testing7
property-testing6
data-driven5
unit-testing5
test-framework4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
paralainer/gif-to-mp4-convert-service
Jul 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
paralainer/gotimezonebot
May 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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