Summary
Vladimir Chervanev is a senior performance engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and optimizing backend systems, currently focused on ingestion pipelines and indexing services using PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, and Kubernetes. He has a strong track record of sustainable Ruby/Rails development at scale across startups and larger teams, with deep expertise in Postgres tuning, performance monitoring, and cost-effective architecture. Vladimir combines algorithmic thinking and formal OO design from a master’s in applied mathematics with practical skills in TDD, refactoring, and cross-platform Linux/Mac/Windows tooling. He’s delivered production-critical systems at companies including Perchwell, Procore, and Facebook, and has led teams on routing and scheduling algorithms earlier in his career. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs careful engineering discipline with a knack for simplifying complex data flows.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied mathematics and informatics, Master's degree Applied mathematics and informatics at Samara State Technical University
English, Russian