cleveralbatraoz

Backend And Systems Engineer

Backend and systems engineer with 5 years of production experience in backend. Tech lead of airport dispatch at Yandex Go, operating 100+ airports at 99.99% SLO; Deep C++ specialist. Completing CS at ITMO while working full-time since 2021.



Experience: 5 years

Yearly salary: $72,000

Hourly rate: $40

Nationality: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Residency: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates


Experience

Backend Engineer
Yandex Go
2025 - 2026
Tech lead for airport dispatch across 100+ airports, built on queue-based driver-rider matching. Established the area’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.
Software Engineer
Passware
2023 - 2025
Shipped password recovery for 6+ encrypted formats in modern C++ (Apple DMG, SanDisk SecureAccess, etc). Owned each format end-to-end: key derivation, decryption pipeline, recovery strategy. Built distributed brute-force running for months across multi-core hosts with resumable state.
Backend Engineer
VK
2022 - 2023
Core infrastructure engineer on VKontakte’s internal data layer; owned 3 of 50+ purpose-built databases. Scaled ad-targeting and recommendation databases serving ML teams with 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
Research internship on the oneTBB team, analyzing move-semantic behavior of TBB concurrency primitives against the C++ standard library. Prototyped a movable-mutex reference implementation and authored a technical report informing oneTBB’s alignment with C++23/26 concurrency standards.

Skills

computer-science
cryptography
linux
math
rust
zero-knowledge
c-plus-plus
english
russian