Senior Backend Engineer with 13+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale backend systems in Python and Perl, with additional experience in Ruby. Specializes in API design, CI/CD automation, data processing pipelines, and performance optimization. Strong background in distributed systems, network automation, and backend services supporting millions of users. Proven ability to deliver measurable improvements in performance, reliability, and engineering throughput.

Andrey Yuldashev

Senior Backend Engineer with 13+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale backend systems in Python and Perl, with additional experience in Ruby. Specializes in API design, CI/CD automation, data processing pipelines, and performance optimization. Strong background in distributed systems, network automation, and backend services supporting millions of users. Proven ability to deliver measurable improvements in performance, reliability, and engineering throughput.

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Senior Backend Engineer with 13+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale backend systems in Python and Perl, with additional experience in Ruby. Specializes in API design, CI/CD automation, data processing pipelines, and performance optimization.
Strong background in distributed systems, network automation, and backend services supporting millions of users.
Proven ability to deliver measurable improvements in performance, reliability, and engineering throughput.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Akamai
September 1, 2022 - March 31, 2024
Maintained and improved Akamai's CI pipeline supporting multiple engineering teams across global locations. Contributed to a proof of concept for migrating in-house CI pipeline to GitLab CI. Updated Docker images of test environments with the latest libraries and frameworks; ensured stability of test servers. Fixed bugs in the in-house TCMS and CI pipeline. Handled miscellaneous requests from TCMS users. Achievements: designed and implemented a REST API client to integrate GitLab CI with the internal TCMS and improved stability of legacy CI pipelines.
Senior Software Engineer at EPAM Systems
July 1, 2015 - August 31, 2022
Backend development of a system for tracking regulation compliance. Responsibilities included analyzing requirements, creating technical specifications, estimating implementation effort, implementing feature changes, and ensuring 100% coverage with unit and integration tests. Delivered end-to-end production features and designed new type of mappings between objects to support rule-mapping workflows for compliance analysts.
Backend Developer at EPAM Systems
July 1, 2015 - November 30, 2020
Incremental development of the NCCM (Network Configuration & Change Management) appliance data collection engine and Web UI backend. Achievements include: designing and implementing a tool to store device configurations in Git and synchronize with the NCCM appliance; generating an API helper library from API schema; designing and implementing a system to extract and visualize performance metrics from application logs to support performance testing; building a multi-threaded data collection engine; implementing data collection from Cisco ACI via its REST API.
Senior Software Engineer at Yandex
July 1, 2014 - April 30, 2015
Backend development for the front page of Yandex – Russia’s leading search engine. Implemented features for movable bridge schedule informer in St. Petersburg, Aeroexpress (airport shuttle train) schedule widget, and a library to interact with company-wide storage of user data; migrated certain user settings to company-wide storage.
Software Developer at Thomson Reuters (Markets) SA / GeneGO Inc.
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2013
Integration with microarray analysis module via SOAP protocol; optimized XML generation (3–5x improvement for large pages); continued improvement of MetaCore's workflow engine; delivered numerous enhancements of MetaCore – an integrated analytical software suite in systems biology; involved in Agile (Scrum) adoption.

Education

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Qualifications

Japanese Language Program (intensive - N2 level)
April 1, 2024 - January 5, 2026
Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2020

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment

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