pashaguskov

Senior Software Engineer

๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐Ÿฑ+ ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐—˜ 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 

๐—ž๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜€:ย 
โ€ข Perforator: Built cluster-wide profiling service with < 1% overhead, enabling optimisation across 500+ micro-servicesย 
โ€ข Performance: Reduced critical path latencies by 10x (metadata search), 2โ€“3x (search infrastructure)ย 
โ€ข Crypto/Trading Infrastructure: Increased company profit by 15% through multi-node communication optimisation; set up monitoring and alerting for trading systemsย 
โ€ข Reliability: Improved system uptime and incident response (3x faster MTTR in previous role)ย 
โ€ข Leadership: Mentored 5 engineers, contributed to 2 promotionsย 

๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ: EVM, Blockchain, Go, C++, Distributed Systems, Docker, Cloud, Terraform, Kubernetes, eBPF, gRPC, Linux, performance profiling. Active crypto user with hands-on blockchain experience.ย 

๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ: 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: ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช United Arab Emirates


Experience

Senior Software Engineer Intern
Yandex
2023 - 2026
โ€ข Enabled cluster-wide performance visibility with minimal overhead (< 1%) by developing the continuous profiling service โ€œPerforatorโ€ from scratch and designing core aggregation and symbolization engines. โ€ข Helped optimize 500+ microservices by supporting Python 2 / 3 profiling in production. โ€ข Enabled ML engineers to increase GPU utilization by 15% by integrating Perforator with libcupti tracing for GPU profiling support. โ€ข Open-sourced Perforator which grew to 3.4k+ starts on Github. Refactored internal dependencies, and prepared documentation. โ€ข Attracted a key contributor who supported Lua profiling by conducting a workshop on Perforator for 70+ participants at C++ Zero Cost Conf 2025. โ€ข Mentored 3 interns and 2 middle engineers - regular code reviews and architectural planning.
Software Engineer
Crypto Startup
2021 - 2023
โ€ข Increased trading volume by 16% by designing and implementing cross-chain integrations with multiple cross-chain bridges. โ€ข Increased companyโ€™s profit by 15% and reduced order-to-execution latency by optimizing trading strategies with faster multi-node communication. โ€ข Improved system reliability by 30% (30% fewer incidents) by optimizing testing infrastructure and node deployment. โ€ข 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
โ€ข Reduced the investigation workflow for items visibility issues from 3โ€“5 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
โ€ข Reduced metadata query latency by 10x by integrating a new internal VCS into the caching service using C++ and gRPC. โ€ข Reduced average search latency by 2โ€“3x 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