Vladimir Polyakov
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolVladimir Polyakov is a Staff Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 14 years of experience designing and shipping resilient, scalable systems across startups and large platforms. He combines deep backend expertise in Node.js and Go with production-grade practices around microservices, CI/CD, and cloud-native operations (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS) developed at companies like Getir and Uber. He has a strong track record leading teams and reliability efforts—reducing storage footprints dramatically, introducing RFC and service catalog processes, and improving test coverage and automation. An active engineer with roots in applied research and education, he contributed a Russian Porter stemmer and tokenizer fixes to the popular NaturalNode natural language library, reflecting a pragmatic focus on real-world text processing. Pragmatic and hands-on, he pairs technical leadership with mentoring and a history of shipping high-throughput event and ETL platforms.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Belgorod Shukhov State Technology University
Github Skills (7)
tokenize10
tokenizer10
javascript10
nlp10
jestjs9
jes9
jtest9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NaturalNode/natural
May 2012 - May 2012
general natural language facilities for node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Vladimir primarily focused on implementing Russian language stemming capabilities within the `natural` library. They developed a Porter Stemmer implementation for the Russian language, including the core stemming logic and testing. The user's contributions involved creating new files and modifying existing ones to include stop words, tokenizers, and specifications to support Russian text processing. They also addressed tokenizer fixes and code refactoring to support the Russian language stemming feature.
nlpkebab-casecorenlpfacilitiesnatural-language
vladimir-polyakov/dotfiles
Jun 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:112 commits, 3 PRs, 82 pushes in 8 years 8 months
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