Timothy Basanov is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems for major tech companies from Google to Apple. Currently improving Apple TV’s backend reliability and observability, he focuses on automation and efficiency to make services faster and easier to operate. His background includes architecting Evernote’s first commerce microservice and migrating a decade of legacy customers to a new pricing engine, as well as performance and tooling wins like a 10x dev build speedup. At Google he contributed to open-source projects such as Guice parallelization and Vitess JDBC integrations, reflecting a strong interest in infrastructure and developer productivity. A Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology graduate and two-time startup cofounder, he blends production-scale engineering with entrepreneurial curiosity and a track record of shipping complex migrations and payoffs. Based in Mountain View, he pairs deep backend expertise with a knack for making large systems more observable and automatable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master, CS, Master, CS at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Plugin for TeamCity for a native DataDog integration
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