Valery Zajkov
Assistant Vice President, Software Engineering at iCapital
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolValery Zajkov is an Assistant Vice President of Software Engineering in New York with eight years of experience building Ruby on Rails backends and React/Redux frontends. He progressed from full-stack roles at startups to senior engineering and leadership at HireArt and now iCapital, combining hands-on coding with team and delivery ownership. His background in mechanical engineering and an intensive App Academy bootcamp give him a pragmatic, system-oriented approach to product development and debugging. Valery has a track record of shipping customer-facing web applications and mentoring engineers through growth-stage transitions. He brings cross-disciplinary problem solving—leveraging engineering internship experience in transportation and manufacturing—to software team leadership. Colleagues describe him as a practical, steady technical leader who bridges legacy systems and modern front-end experiences.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
App AcademyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
rack10
server10
multithreading10
ruby9
palm9
firebase6
emacs6
emacs-lisp6
ruby-on-rails6
yasnippet5
vscode-extension4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vzajkov/puma
Nov 2021 - Apr 2023
A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
rackrubyweb-serverparallelism
vzajkov/Kelp
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch, 6 issues in 2 months
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