Serghei Iakovlev
Senior Principal Software Engineer at airSlate
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolSerghei Iakovlev is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems and driving engineering excellence from Poland. He currently leads AI/ML/LLM adoption and architecture at airSlate, standardizing frameworks, automation, and best practices while stepping in to execute complex implementations himself. Serghei’s hands-on background spans C, C++, PHP and cloud-native stacks (AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions) and includes building internal distributed systems, mass-mailing services, and chaos engineering tooling. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved build automation and cross-platform testing for projects like re2c and contributed performance and validation enhancements across the Phalcon ecosystem and Zephir compiler tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who couples deep implementation skills with a strong focus on operational reliability and developer productivity. He also brings a lesser-seen mix of low-level systems experience and test automation expertise that helps bridge product, infra, and ML efforts.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied informatics in economics, Bachelor's degree Applied informatics in economics at RosNOU
Russian, English, Ukrainian, Polish
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Github Skills (66)
controller10
python10
operation10
testing10
cmake10
c1110
array-merge10
security10
c1710
build-automation10
array-iterator10
namespaces10
integration-testing10
project-management10
django10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
phalcon/incubator
Jan 2015 - Nov 2019
Incubator adapters/functionality for the Phalcon PHP Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 771 commits, 657 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Serghei contributed to the `phalcon/incubator` repository by adding and fixing validators within the Phalcon framework, specifically the `Between` and `Decimal` validators. These contributions focused on improving validation rules within a Model-View-Controller (MVC) context. The user also introduced new features, such as supporting overriding decimal points in the `Decimal` validator and the addition of an `allowEmpty` option to both the `Between` and `Decimal` validators, enhancing flexibility.
database-adapterphalcon-phpphpphalconadapters
phalcon/awesome-phalcon
May 2015 - Mar 2020
A curated list of awesome Phalcon libraries and resources
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:247 commits, 206 PRs, 206 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Serghei primarily worked on enhancing the test suite for the Phalcon project. Their contributions focused on creating and refining tests for the `README.md` file, ensuring the correct formatting and content. The commits involved modifying test scripts, improving test messages, and moving the tests to a subdirectory. Further work included adding Go tests and supporting features to the project's testing framework.
opencartphpphalconphalcon-documentationphalcon-php-framework
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