Summary
Stanislav Afanasev is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems across startups and scaleups, currently engineering at Faraway from Amsterdam. He has strong Go and PHP roots and a proven track record delivering geo-aware features, performance-driven refactors, and distributed microservices (Postgres/PostGIS, Docker, AWS, Prometheus, Jaeger). Past roles at MessageBird, Beat and Juno show deep experience in real-time and location-based services, while earlier work in analytics and scraping honed his skills in data pipelines and optimization. Colleagues know him for turning complex legacy pipelines into operationally friendly systems and for organizing technical meetups and hackathons. He blends hands-on implementation with operational thinking, often prioritizing measurable performance and supportability improvements that aren’t obvious from job titles alone.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Development Technology, Bachelor's degree, Software Development Technology at Moscow Technological Institute
Basic Computer Science and Information Technologies, Basic Computer Science and Information Technologies at Chelyabinsk State University
South Ural State University (SUSU)
English