Yury Emelyanov
Director Engeneering at metaphacts GmbH
Sandhausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolYury Emelyanov is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years building complex distributed software and currently serves as Director of Engineering at metaphacts GmbH. He combines hands-on full-stack experience—demonstrated by contributions to the Mirador open-source viewer around annotation tooling and UI—with strong analytical and mathematical foundations to deliver user-focused, high-quality solutions. Previously a founder/CEO and department head, he has led teams from small project groups to 16-person departments, managing budgets, customer-facing projects, and supplier relations. His background includes architecting distributed workflow systems for government-scale deployments and performance tuning of large databases, showing depth across both application and infrastructure layers. Based in Sandhausen, Germany, he blends research roots from Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University with practical product delivery and occasional advisory roles, bringing an engineer-founder mindset to organizational strategy and execution.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" (ETU)Saint Petersburg 524 Gymnasium
Русский, Английский
Github Skills (13)
json-ld10
javascript10
iiif10
annotate10
annotations10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
css9
uid9
g8
gruntjs8
html7
openseadragon7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ProjectMirador/mirador
Feb 2016 - May 2016
An open-source, web-based 'multi-up' viewer that supports zoom-pan-rotate functionality, ability to display/compare simple images, and images with annotations.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 16 PRs, 15 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Yury primarily contributed to the Mirador viewer's front-end and annotation functionality, including fixing issues with JSON-LD generation for annotations to conform to the IIIF Presentation API 2 standard and implementing new annotation tools. They made UI-related improvements by integrating Material Icons and updating the build process to include them, as well as merging in features from other branches and fixing settings-related issues. These changes demonstrate work across multiple parts of the application, specifically the user interface and annotation features.
openseadragonrotateannotationsiiifjavascript
ailabitmo/AilabOntologyViewer
Jan 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 3 months
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