Vasily Katraev
Staff Software Engineer at Riot Games
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolVasily Katraev is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance, world-scale systems across game development, SRE, HFT, and big data. Currently leading product tech and architecture for critical Gateway services at Riot Games, he mixes hands-on coding (Python, Java, Kotlin, Erlang/Scala experience) with technical leadership for cross-region, high-availability products including an XBGP partnership with Microsoft. He has repeatedly improved performance, reliability and scalability—whether preparing MMO backends for 20k CCU load tests or architecting Hadoop-based analytics for banking—and won a Players Platform MVP for his work. A strong math and algorithms background underpins a pragmatic “get things done” approach and a track record of shipping player-focused features like Twitch drops and telecom-bundled bundles. He has also co-created and led internal software engineering school programs that placed top graduates into industry roles, showing a commitment to mentoring and curriculum development beyond pure engineering. Unusually, he even has a star system named after him in an official Star Trek MMO, reflecting his long-standing identity as a gamer-engineer.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (19)
tornado10
python8
aem5
web-application5
application-framework2
networking1
asyncio1
gevent1
asynchronous1
bottle1
async1
web-framework1
webclient1
aiohttp1
python-web1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sergdenisov/frontik
Jul 2011 - Apr 2013
Contributions:67 commits in 1 year 9 months
nekanek/frontik-without-testing
Jul 2011 - Apr 2013
Contributions:67 commits in 1 year 9 months
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