pashaguskov
Senior Software Engineer
๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ณ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ป๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฑ+ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ building high-performance distributed systems. I specialise in taking systems from concept to stable production, with a track record in performance optimization and infrastructure engineering. Currently at Yandex, where I developed Perforator โ a continuous profiling platform that's now open source with 3.4k+ GitHub stars.ย
๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐:ย
โข Perforator: Built cluster-wide profiling service with < 1% overhead, enabling optimisation across 500+ micro-servicesย
โข Performance: Reduced critical path latencies by 10x (metadata search), 2โ3x (search infrastructure)ย
โข Crypto/Trading Infrastructure: Increased company profit by 15% through multi-node communication optimisation; set up monitoring and alerting for trading systemsย
โข Reliability: Improved system uptime and incident response (3x faster MTTR in previous role)ย
โข Leadership: Mentored 5 engineers, contributed to 2 promotionsย
๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ: EVM, Blockchain, Go, C++, Distributed Systems, Docker, Cloud, Terraform, Kubernetes, eBPF, gRPC, Linux, performance profiling. Active crypto user with hands-on blockchain experience.ย
๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ: Senior/Staff roles in startups, product companies and Web3/DeFi projects โ building scalable backends, blockchain infrastructure, on-chain/off-chain services, or high-performance distributed systems. Open to infra and developer tooling roles.
๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐:ย
โข Perforator: Built cluster-wide profiling service with < 1% overhead, enabling optimisation across 500+ micro-servicesย
โข Performance: Reduced critical path latencies by 10x (metadata search), 2โ3x (search infrastructure)ย
โข Crypto/Trading Infrastructure: Increased company profit by 15% through multi-node communication optimisation; set up monitoring and alerting for trading systemsย
โข Reliability: Improved system uptime and incident response (3x faster MTTR in previous role)ย
โข Leadership: Mentored 5 engineers, contributed to 2 promotionsย
๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ: EVM, Blockchain, Go, C++, Distributed Systems, Docker, Cloud, Terraform, Kubernetes, eBPF, gRPC, Linux, performance profiling. Active crypto user with hands-on blockchain experience.ย
๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ: Senior/Staff roles in startups, product companies and Web3/DeFi projects โ building scalable backends, blockchain infrastructure, on-chain/off-chain services, or high-performance distributed systems. Open to infra and developer tooling roles.
Experience: 5 years
Yearly salary: $140,000
Hourly rate: $70
Residency: ๐ฆ๐ช United Arab Emirates
Experience
Senior Software Engineer Intern
Yandex 2023 - 2026
โข Enabled cluster-wide performance visibility with minimal overhead (< 1%) by developing the continuous profiling service โPerforatorโ from scratch and designing core aggregation and symbolization engines. โข Helped optimize 500+ microservices by supporting Python 2 / 3 profiling in production. โข Enabled ML engineers to increase GPU utilization by 15% by integrating Perforator with libcupti tracing for GPU profiling support. โข Open-sourced Perforator which grew to 3.4k+ starts on Github. Refactored internal dependencies, and prepared documentation. โข Attracted a key contributor who supported Lua profiling by conducting a workshop on Perforator for 70+ participants at C++ Zero Cost Conf 2025. โข Mentored 3 interns and 2 middle engineers - regular code reviews and architectural planning.
Software Engineer
Crypto Startup 2021 - 2023
โข Increased trading volume by 16% by designing and implementing cross-chain integrations with multiple cross-chain bridges. โข Increased companyโs profit by 15% and reduced order-to-execution latency by optimizing trading strategies with faster multi-node communication. โข Improved system reliability by 30% (30% fewer incidents) by optimizing testing infrastructure and node deployment. โข Reduced mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 3x and prevented potential incidents by improving system reliability with comprehensive alerting and monitoring.
Software Engineer Intern
Meta 2021 - 2021
โข Reduced the investigation workflow for items visibility issues from 3โ5 steps to a single step by developing an internal debugging tool with a React/Relay UI for Meta Shops platforms.
Software Engineer
Yandex 2020 - 2021
โข Reduced metadata query latency by 10x by integrating a new internal VCS into the caching service using C++ and gRPC. โข Reduced average search latency by 2โ3x by re-engineering commitsโ metadata search with a custom C++ search engine.
Skills
architecture
aws
backend
blockchain
cloud-engineer
docker
golang
kubernetes
postgres
python
redis
solidity
system-engineer
terraform
web3
english
russian