Vladislav Akatov
Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolVladislav Akatov is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Data Engineering with a strong track record of designing and shipping large-scale, ML-driven data platforms across banking, retail, and public sector domains. He has 6–9 years of hands-on experience building lakehouse architectures, Data Mesh transformations, and production-grade pipelines on Azure and GCP, often moving systems from monolithic warehouses to real-time Delta Lake solutions. Vladislav combines deep engineering discipline (Scala, PySpark, CI/CD, infrastructure automation) with a product-minded approach, translating business requirements into feature-rich ML products used for personalized recommendations and pricing optimization. He has led and scaled engineering teams, established observability and governance practices, and delivered measurable cost and performance improvements (including a 25% storage reduction at ASOS). Based in Dubai, he brings a finance-informed perspective from earlier roles in banking and brokerage that helps bridge analytics and business value. An understated strength is his history of creating reusable engineering libraries and ETL frameworks that accelerated delivery across multiple teams.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in Economics Finance & Credit, Bachelor's degree in Economics Finance & Credit at Plekhanov Russian University of EconomicsMaster's degree in Management Finance & Technology, Master's degree in Management Finance & Technology at The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Русский, English
Github Skills (32)
dotnet8
dotnet-core8
java8
csharp8
postgresql7
database-access7
jdbc7
oracle7
db27
sql7
database7
sqlite7
erd6
firebird6
deploying6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lastseenjustnow/scala-algo
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:215 commits, 210 pushes in 10 months
lastseenjustnow/python-algo
Jun 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:121 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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