Timophey Zaitsev
Principal Engineer at Kikoff
Incline Village, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimophey Zaitsev is a Principal Engineer with nearly two decades of experience building resilient, high-performance cloud platforms and leading engineering organizations through transformational change. He has a track record of operationalizing zero-downtime delivery, migrating legacy APIs to containerized architectures, and scaling systems to handle production traffic at scale while improving performance by orders of magnitude. At Ridgeline he led applied LLM initiatives—building a sandboxed AI data analyst and an LLM-operated “asset management firm” that stress-tested production workflows—demonstrating expertise in isolation, guardrails, and observability for safe AI in production. He pairs hands-on technical contributions (federated GraphQL, unified auth, object-level caching, Redis adoption, and API strategy across 1300+ APIs) with people leadership, mentoring leaders and enabling autonomous teams. Known for tackling the hard edge cases others avoid, he combines creative architecture with measurable business impact and a focus on long-term operational outcomes. Based in Incline Village, NV, he holds a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of MarylandMasters of Software Engineering, Masters of Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Russian, Spanish, English
Github Skills (22)
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safari-extension9
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tzaitsev/github-playground
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
A safe place to experiment with git & GitHub in a group setting
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 12 branches in 10 days
placereactsafesetting
tzaitsev-rl/apollo-federation-relay
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
A demo of Apollo Federation and global Node resolution
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 months
resolutionapollo-federationfederationnodejsgraphql
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