Timur Safin
Director Of RRI Database Laboratory
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
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Top SchoolTimur Safin is a seasoned systems programmer and engineering leader with over two decades of experience spanning Windows, Linux and Unix environments and a long track record in database, virtualization and performance simulation projects. Currently directing Huawei’s RRI Database Laboratory and leading GaussDB optimization efforts, he combines hands-on kernel and planner work with strategic lab leadership. His background includes core contributions to the high-performance Tarantool database—implementing low-level API wrappers and datetime/storage enhancements—and senior roles at Tarantool, Yandex, Acronis and Intel. Timur’s career uniquely blends academic teaching, compiler and simulator development (including x86 core and virtualization simulators) with enterprise backup, ride-hailing and in-memory database systems. Known for digging into subtle bugs and timezone/date handling in databases, he favors pragmatic, performance-first solutions that bridge research and production. Based in Moscow, he brings rare cross-domain depth from compilers and simulators to modern database kernels.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering CAD Compilers, Engineering CAD Compilers at Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University)
Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tarantool/tarantool
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Get your data in RAM. Get compute close to data. Enjoy the performance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:754 reviews, 164 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Timur primarily contributed to the core database functionality of the Tarantool project. They implemented new API wrappers for the module, box_ibuf\*, allowing external merger. Furthermore, the user worked on improving database capabilities, including implementing storage hints and comparisons for datetime values, and integrating datetime string formatting. The user also fixed a bug regarding negative year formatting and added the support for parsing timezone abbreviations and the timezone support with the strftime-like.
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intersystems-ru/iknowSocial
Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:146 commits, 6 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year
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