Vasily Chekalkin
Staff Engineer at Neara
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolVasily Chekalkin is a Staff Engineer and seasoned software architect with 17 years’ experience designing and delivering large-scale, service-oriented systems across telecom and internet companies. Based in Sydney, he has led enterprise architecture and core platform projects at Optus and Yandex and currently drives delivery and architecture at Neara while running his consultancy, Red Rock Systems. His strengths lie in software architecture, SOA, and complex system integration—bringing pragmatic, deadline- and budget-conscious solutions for cloud-native voice, portal, and identity/payment systems. An active open-source systems developer, he has contributed low-level VM and compiler work to the Parrot/Raku ecosystem (NQP), reflecting deep expertise in runtimes and language-level tooling. Known for turning monoliths into modular services, he blends hands-on implementation with end-to-end solution design and an applied mathematics background.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Kazan State University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (7)
parrot10
nqp10
perl10
back-end-development10
raku10
compiler-development10
regular-expression9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Raku/nqp
Mar 2010 - Mar 2012
NQP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Vasily primarily contributed to the development of NQP (Not Quite Perl), a low-level virtual machine and compiler for the Raku programming language. Their contributions involved borrowing and implementing methods from the Plumage library, including array, hash, and IO functions. They also focused on adding and modifying core functionality such as generating and implementing multis in the codebase and updating the regular expression engine to utilize parrot's pct_multi_support branch.
rakunqp
yandex/sdch_module
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:209 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 months
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