Summary
Vladimir Gorodulin is an Associate Principal Engineer with over a decade of hands-on Ruby and Rails experience, currently shaping backend architecture at Smart Pension. He has a proven track record as a freelance and contract engineer, delivering business-specific web applications and architecting core software and hardware systems that powered startups and local enterprises. Vladimir combines deep backend craftsmanship—API design, CI, testing, integrations—with practical product instincts from end-to-end engagements across insurance, energy (BMS), and education sectors. Notable strengths include building reusable API adapters and gems, designing multi-tenant systems from scratch, and maintaining a 100% success rate and Top Rated status on Upwork. Trained originally as a lawyer, he brings an uncommon blend of analytical rigor and entrepreneurial focus to technical problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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