Vlad M
Software Engineer at Lyft
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad M is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience and a strong track record building scalable backend systems, currently contributing at Lyft after several senior roles at EPAM. He specializes in Python, JavaScript and Java, designing cloud-native architectures on AWS, implementing Infrastructure-as-Code, and optimizing data pipelines with tools like Pandas, Airflow, Kafka and PySpark. Vlad has led teams, owned microservice design and integrations for large e-commerce and enterprise projects, and improved API performance through async I/O and strategic caching. He pairs hands-on coding and testing discipline with operational practices—containerization, Kubernetes orchestration and monitoring—to ship reliable systems. An active open-source contributor to the Doom Emacs community, he focuses on code quality and configurability rather than flashy features. Based in Old Toronto, he brings an economist’s analytical mindset to technical trade-offs and pragmatic decision making.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Economics, Master's degree Economics at Kharkiv State University of Food Technology and TradeBachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at Kharkiv state university of food technology and trade
English
Github Skills (5)
emacs10
emacs-lisp10
rust9
devil8
vim7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
doomemacs/core
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Vlad contributed to the Emacs framework by fixing typos and removing comments related to unused dependencies. They added a localleader keybind for "cargo check" within the Rust module. Furthermore, they addressed a bug related to argument count in default configuration settings. The user's work demonstrates a focus on code quality, configurations, and functionality within the framework.
emacsvimemacs-lispemacs-configurationdoomemacs
dywedir/nixpkgs
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:105 pushes, 256 branches in 11 months
nixosnix-packages
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