Yaroslav Litvinov
Senior Software Engineer at Blacklane
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolYaroslav Litvinov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge with over a decade of backend expertise building resilient services in Ruby and Go across FinTech, GovTech, e-commerce and two-sided marketplaces. He has a strong AWS background and a track record of delivering production systems at companies from startups to scale-ups, most recently at Blacklane after roles at Gymshark and Stash. Yaroslav contributes to open source—improving geocoding test coverage and Yandex result handling in the widely used alexreisner/geocoder project—demonstrating attention to data accuracy and test automation. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors that clarify data handling and reduce edge-case bugs, especially in geo/address processing. He combines deep backend craftsmanship with a practical focus on observability and maintainability gained from diverse industry experience.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI) 
Russian, English, French
Github Skills (4)
testing10
geocoder10
geocoding10
ruby10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexreisner/geocoder
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Complete Ruby geocoding solution.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yaroslav primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying tests for the Yandex geocoding lookup. Their work included implementing tests for various scenarios, such as hydro objects, province objects and maximum precision for russian addresses. They also refactored the Yandex result data extraction logic, improving code clarity and data handling, and adjusting the postal code.
geocoding-objectsmongoidgeocodingrubygeocoding-requests
iarie/pwush
Apr 2018 - Aug 2022
pushwoosh api wrapper
Contributions:59 commits, 12 PRs, 95 pushes in 4 years 5 months
apiapi-wrapperpush-notificationsrubypushwoosh
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