Vitaly Kurennov
Head Of Backend Engineering at CargoPort
Cascais, Portugal
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Top SchoolVitaly Kurennov is a Head of Backend Engineering and Ruby on Rails specialist with over 18 years in web development and 12 years of formal experience leading teams and products. He designs and runs backend systems end-to-end—architecture, APIs, event-driven processing (Sidekiq/Kafka), performance tuning and reliability—while translating business goals into pragmatic, incremental delivery plans. At CargoPort he drives measurable p95 improvements and establishes code review and SDLC standards; previously he founded and scaled an online school that mentored 2,000+ developers, showing a rare combination of hands-on engineering and instructional leadership. Comfortable balancing rapid delivery with maintainability, he routinely turns complex domain requirements into clear specs, reusable designs, and operationally robust platforms. Based in Cascais, Portugal, he brings entrepreneurial grit from running client-facing product shops and startups to large-scale logistics engineering challenges.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering at Kurgan State University
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Github Skills (36)
nodejs7
mongodb7
rake6
ruby-on-rails6
react6
traits6
rails6
ruby6
javascript6
stackoverflow4
django4
python3
questions-and-answers3
database-access3
java2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arthurkulchenko/thinknetika_app_2
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:144 comments in 1 month
reactrecreated
diaz47/qna
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:138 comments in 2 months
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