Yana Petrova
Senior Software Engineer at Distribusion Technologies
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolYana Petrova is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 12+ years of experience designing and scaling backend systems for both startups and large enterprises. She has a strong track record at Microsoft and Bookmate, where she delivered cost optimizations, reliability improvements, and developer-focused features—reducing memory use from 20GB to under 500MB and saving $48K annually through VM tuning. Comfortable leading technical discussions, she has onboarded and mentored engineers, driven roadmap planning, and architected load-balancing strategies to remove critical bottlenecks. Her work spans payment and billing systems, context mapping for editorial workflows, and resilient integrations, and she has also built bespoke permission and pricing models as an independent consultant. Equally at ease in hands-on coding and cross-functional leadership, Yana brings a pragmatic focus on measurable impact and shipping developer-friendly solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Ulyanovsk State University
English, Russian, Czech
Github Skills (78)
geocoding10
mongoid10
kaminari9
paginator9
rubygems8
hosting8
pagination8
ruby8
routes8
activemodel8
rails8
shared7
ruby-client7
ruby-on-rails7
javascript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JanaVPetrova/huyettings
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
configuration manager
Contributions:17 commits, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
configurationconfiguration-managementconfiguration-manageryaml-configurationconfiguration-files
jbmeerkat/http-api-design
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 7 days
apiherokuapi-platformheroku-platformdesign-guide
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