Summary
Vasiliy Polyakov is a Senior Software Engineer with around a decade of experience building high-performance, scalable enterprise services in C++, Scala, and Python. He has a strong track record of optimizing systems under heavy load — for example, redesigning event queues to boost a payment service’s performance by 83% and cutting deployments from days to minutes through CI/CD automation. Comfortable across the stack, he automates complex workflows with GitLab CI, Docker, and Kubernetes, and has led blue-green migration and extensive load testing efforts. Experienced in distributed teams and academia, he combines hands-on engineering with mentoring—helping juniors and students ship production-ready code—and has applied HPC and numerical methods in research projects. A FOSS and Linux enthusiast active in the Perm community, he brings a practical research mindset to production engineering and cross-team knowledge systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied mathematics and computer science, Bachelor's degree Applied mathematics and computer science at Perm State University (PSU)
Perm High School No. 146 - Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics
Russian, English