Yuri Takhteyev
Director Of Engineering Sr. Eng. Manager at Roblox
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolYuri Takhteyev is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 20 years of experience scaling teams and shipping products used by hundreds of millions of users. He has built and led organizations from early-stage startups to 150+ person engineering groups, driving tens of millions in revenue and managing teams responsible for billions in assets. At Roblox he rebuilt release and testing teams across six platforms and led a top-5 Meta Quest app launch, and earlier founded TriplePlay (acquired by Roblox) after building highly resilient SaaS used by BCG, Deloitte and TED. As CTO of Rangle he grew delivery to 155 people, transformed client user experiences, and jumpstarted an AI practice; as VP at Wealthsimple he re-architected trading systems to handle hyper-growth and strengthened security posture. An academic by training with a PhD and MS from top institutions, he has published a book with MIT Press, done research at Stanford, Berkeley and Toronto, and taught hundreds of students—bringing a rare blend of research depth and operational rigor. He also contributes to open-source (notably refactoring Python-Markdown) showing hands-on commitment to code quality alongside executive leadership.
20 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Management and Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley School of InformationMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Portuguese, Russian
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Github Skills (6)
regular-expression10
markdown10
elementtree10
markdown-it10
python10
text-processing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Python-Markdown/markdown
Mar 2006 - Dec 2008
A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown with Extension support.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Yuri's commits primarily focused on refactoring and improving the functionality of the markdown library. They modified the core code by adding support for smart emphasis, converting instance variables to class variables, and removing recursion from the algorithm. Furthermore, the user added multi-paragraph HTML support and addressed several minor bugs to improve the library's overall performance and stability.
pythonpython-markdownpython-implementationextension-supportmarkdown-parser
yuri/lua-xssfilter
Apr 2008 - Jan 2013
Contributions:23 commits in 4 years 9 months
xss-filterluaxssfilter
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