Summary
Vladislav Laukhin is a backend Software Engineer II with 8 years of experience building scalable, distributed cloud-native systems, currently working at Booking.com from Amsterdam. He is proficient in Python, Java, and Go, with active interest in Kotlin and Rust, and a track record of replacing vendor solutions with in-house platforms that improved performance and cut costs. At Raiffeisen Bank he helped create an NLU chatbot and voice assistant handling large portions of traffic, and built a resilient chat platform serving millions of clients. Earlier roles include engineering critical CDN features—like automated Let's Encrypt issuance and origin shielding—that sped up workflows and reduced customer pricing. A practiced public speaker (PyCon Russia, Moscow Python Conf++) and internal mentor, he regularly shares practical knowledge on observability and websocket routing. Notably, he combines hands-on systems design with experience interviewing and growing engineering teams, bridging tooling, operations, and developer enablement.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)
English, Russian, Dutch