Summary
Sergey Varaksin is a seasoned Web Engineer with 12 years of full-stack experience, currently building product at Mode from his base in San Francisco. He’s comfortable across the stack—HTML/JS front ends, Rails backends, API design, deployment pipelines and server administration—and favors simplicity in design and Ruby for its expressiveness. Sergey has a track record of modernizing legacy apps and shipping production systems, from porting Rails apps to Angular/React to building API services with Grape. His career spans startups and enterprise consulting (Groupon, Sears) where he blended hands-on development with operational ownership. An engineer by training from Novosibirsk, he brings pragmatic code-first solutions and a knack for turning complex systems into maintainable, elegant products.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Computer Science at Novosibirsk State Academy of Water Transport (NSAWT)