Viktors Garkavijs
Lead Architect at Mixefy
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolViktors Garkavijs is a Lead Architect and founder with two decades of software development experience and a deep academic background in informatics and information retrieval. Based in Tokyo, he combines hands-on implementation (.NET, Java) and cloud expertise across AWS and GCP to design microservices and distributed systems for finance, telematics, and large-scale data ingestion. He has led architecture and product delivery at startups and enterprises—shaping systems that passed Azure Expert MSP audits and modernizing telemetry pipelines with Kubernetes, Istio, and observability stacks. His research on gaze-driven image search yielded a patent and reflects a continual focus on human-centered search and IR techniques alongside production-grade engineering. As CEO and Lead Architect at Mixefy, he blends executive leadership with technical stewardship, emphasizing TDD, Clean Code, SOLID, and clean architecture principles. Notably, his work bridges academic rigor (PhD-level research) and pragmatic cloud-native solutions, making him fluent in both experimental IR systems and mission-critical production platforms.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science (incomplete), MSc, Computer Science (incomplete) at Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI)BA, Japanese studies, BA, Japanese studies at Latvijas UniversitateJapanese Studies, Japanese Studies at Miyagi University of EducationPh. D., Informatics, Ph. D., Informatics at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAIPh. D., Informatics, Information Retrieval, Ph. D., Informatics, Information Retrieval at National Institute of InformaticsUniversity of Tokyo
Japanese, Russian, English
Github Skills (89)
http-api9
apigee9
firebase9
cpp9
bitcoin-api9
blockchain9
php9
bitcoin9
csharp9
firebase-functions9
alibabacloud8
grpc8
api8
lambda8
devrel8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gaeshi/dynamodb-rcu-sample
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
A sample code to demonstrate WCU consumption on BatchWriteItem and RCU on Query API calls for Amazon DynamoDB
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
queryapiaws-dynamodbcallselections
gaeshi/multi-k8s
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:12 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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