Talgat Shakirov
Lead Software Engineer at EPAM Systems
Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Top SchoolTalgat Shakirov is a Lead Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience and a decade in senior backend and data roles, specializing in Scala, Java, distributed systems and AWS-driven microservices. He designs and delivers high-load, maintainable solutions—spanning Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, MongoDB and GraphQL—while translating stakeholder needs into pragmatic technical architectures. A proven leader at EPAM and former Big Data engineer at VEON, he combines deep data-pipeline expertise (Airflow, Spark, Flink) with strong CI/CD and containerization practices. Comfortable across FinTech, telecom and enterprise domains, he frequently mentors teams and enforces readable, scalable code standards. Despite a long career rooted in .NET and Java, he has evolved into a Scala/functional programming specialist with active GitHub projects reflecting that transition.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Mechanic-mathematic faculty, Master’s Degree Mechanic-mathematic faculty at Kazakh National state University after al-farabi
English, Russian, KazakhGithub contributions (2)
Terricks/XAFBootstrap
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 37 commits, 39 pushes in 1 month
Terricks/Test
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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