Valentin Kononov is a pragmatic backend team lead and software architect with 17 years of experience designing data schemas, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines to deliver business-focused systems. He champions strongly typed languages such as Go, TypeScript, and C#, and brings a fullstack sensibility from roles at Unity, Mapbox and startups across Europe. Comfortable speaking at conferences and mentoring teams, he favors fast, weighted technical decisions grounded in real necessity. Valentin integrates AI assistants like Claude into his daily tooling and maintains a disciplined engineering practice that spans architecture, infrastructure, and delivery. Based in Cascais e Estoril, Portugal, he balances a demanding technical career with family life and even the occasional skippered yacht adventure.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master Degree of Applied Mathematics and System Programming Queuing Systems, Master Degree of Applied Mathematics and System Programming Queuing Systems at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky
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