Vasily Shmelev
Co-Founder at AlmaLearning.AI
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolVasily Shmelev is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with over a decade of experience designing and shipping production systems, from ground-up services to resilient infrastructure. He combines hands-on engineering in Ruby, Go, Python and JS/TS with deep operational expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability, and a practical mastery of media streaming (HLS, MPEG-2 TS, ffmpeg) that sets him apart. As former CTO of Coursalytics and now co-founder of AlmaLearning.AI, he focuses on hyper-personalized education powered by AI, marrying product strategy with pragmatic architecture and team leadership. His background spans startups and large product teams (including Yandex.Mail), giving him a strong mix of product, technical and managerial experience. A PhD-trained engineer with a penchant for system decomposition and process discipline (SCRUM/Kanban/OKRs), he brings both academic rigor and entrepreneurial grit to building scalable learning platforms.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Engineering, 4.96, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Engineering, 4.96 at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)
Русский, Английский, Испанский, Румынский
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Github Skills (53)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
locumru/locum
Jul 2014 - Sep 2022
Locum.ru service gem DEV version
Contributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 8 years 3 months
gemrubydev
vs-adm/csp-server
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
policycspreportssecurity-policysecurity
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