cleveralbatraoz

Backend And Systems Engineer

Backend and systems engineer with 5 years of production experience across high-RPS services, distributed systems, and C++ infrastructure. Tech lead for airport dispatch at Yandex Go, operating across 100+ airports with services held to 99.99% availability.



Experience: 5 years

Yearly salary: $84,000

Hourly rate: $40

Nationality: 🇦🇲 Armenia

Residency: 🇦🇲 Armenia


Experience

Backend Engineer
Yandex Go
2025 - 2026
Led airport dispatch systems across 100+ airports, owning queue-based driver-rider matching and airport-specific pickup flows. Established the team's first SLO review process, raising critical dispatch services to 99.9% and 99.99% availability. Designed and shipped an instant-pickup flow for high-traffic airports, reducing average ETA by up to 22%. Built a self-service admin tool for airport onboarding, cutting launch time from days to minutes. Mentored 2 backend engineers.
Software Engineer
Passware
2023 - 2025
Shipped password recovery for 5 encrypted formats, including Hancom Office and SanDisk SecureAccess. Owned each format end-to-end: key derivation, decryption pipeline, recovery strategy. Built fault-tolerant distributed brute-force recovery jobs running for weeks across multi-core hosts with checkpointed, resumable state.
Backend Engineer
VK
2022 - 2023
Owned development, maintenance, and production support for 3 of 50+ purpose-built databases in VKontakte's internal data layer. Scaled ad-targeting and recommendation databases for ML workloads handling 10K+ RPS.
Backend Engineer
Broadridge
2021 - 2021
Worked on ULLINK market-data gateways translating Eurex T7 feeds for low-latency trading clients. Diagnosed protocol and connectivity bugs in production C++ components.
Software Engineer Intern
Intel
2021 - 2021
Prototyped a movable-mutex implementation and authored a technical report on oneTBB alignment with C++23/26 concurrency standards.

Skills

c-plus-plus
computer-science
cryptography
linux
math
english
russian