Victor Starodub is a technical lead with 11 years of experience designing and building high-load distributed and storage systems, currently leading development of a distributed object storage at Cloud.ru. He has deep Go expertise from architecting blob storage and platform components at Mail.Ru Group and contributing performance-focused improvements to the widely used easyjson Go serializer. His background spans backend systems at scale—from mail and IMAP services to anti-bruteforce and automation platforms—combined with early work on engineering productivity tooling at Google. Known for pragmatic architecture and hands-on coding, he blends low-level systems thinking with measurable performance tuning and benchmarking.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor unfinished Physics, bachelor unfinished Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing and Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing and Information Systems at University of London
Contributions:78 commits, 40 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Victor primarily contributed to the `easyjson` project, a Go-based JSON serializer. Their work involved making the repository "go get"-able, which included restructuring test files and adding build tags. They also added benchmark tests to compare against other codecs such as the `go/codec` library. Further contributions included supporting the standard encoding/json marshaller interfaces, supporting named types, and other minor improvements.
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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