Timur Borkhodoev
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTimur Borkhodoev is a Senior Software Engineer based in Toronto with seven years of experience building production systems across computer vision, machine learning, operating systems and web backends. He has shipped features at scale through multiple roles at Shopify and StackAdapt and brings research-grade CV/ML experience from Magna Electronics where he worked on self-driving vehicle tooling. Timur is an active contributor to open-source observability, notably improving OpenTelemetry Ruby by instrumenting third-party gems (Koala) and adding flexible exporter and DB instrumentation options. A competitive programmer and hackathon winner, he combines algorithmic rigor with practical engineering—automating build pipelines, modernizing C++ toolchains, and tuning telemetry for real services. Colleagues rely on him for clean, measurable instrumentation and for turning experimental models into maintainable production code.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelors Degree Computer Science, Honours Bachelors Degree Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, Russian
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Github Skills (16)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
develop10
instrumentation10
ruby10
testing9
activerecord9
mongodb-database8
sidekiq8
mysql8
redis8
mongodb8
postgresql8
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ruby
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
OpenTelemetry Ruby API & SDK, and related gems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 19 commits, 19 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Timur's contributions primarily focused on adding and instrumenting the Koala gem for OpenTelemetry, which involves instrumenting Facebook API calls. They implemented features to allow selecting multiple exporters within the SDK, as well as adding configuration options for various database instrumentation to control the inclusion or omission of `db.statement` attributes. Additionally, they provided fixes, including the pruning of invalid links and the correct handling of Active Support subscriptions.
opentelemetryapiapi-sdktracingruby
SomalianIvan/opentelemetry-ruby
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
OpenTelemetry Ruby API & SDK, and related gems
Contributions:148 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 3 months
opentelemetry-rubyapiapi-sdktracingruby
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