Vlad Bokov

About

• Making things people want for 10 years. Happy to grow self and others
• TT-shaped person with roots in backend development
• Passionate Open Source contributor

Open Source Projects

• lunatic-cat/webpacker-remote » external create-react-app builds into #rails
• razum2um/rails-session_cookie » #ruby the simplest way to get auth in dev/test
• lunatic-cat/xxhashdir » filesystem fingerprinting using xxHash in #go

Open Source Contributions

• ethereum/go-ethereum » #ethereum minor fix to allow any vhost in wallet
• rails/rails » #rails diagnostics in text format for xhr request
• rubyjedi/soap4r » bring #ruby library back to life

Skills

• Programming Languages: Ruby Typescript Rust Go Clojure Scala Python
• Data: PostgreSQL Redis Opensearch Kafka RabbitMQ MongoDB
• Web Frameworks: Rails Actix Ring Django Express
• Devops: Docker Kubernetes Helm Ansible
• Blockchain: Ethereum Solidity Truffle
• NLP: Fasttext sklearn pymorphy
• Mobile / Desktop: React Native Qt

Experience

• Software engineer, Amazon, Swansea (United Kingdom) (2022 – Now)
  • Bridging several teams in the Seller Fulfilment Service department
  • #billing: delivered seller's ability to pay for various shipping services, turnover >500K/month
  • #reporting: provided the insights of what to re-purchase for sellers based on 2TB of data
  • #platform: investigating performance issues with PostgreSQL operating at 61K TPS/sec
  • Technologies got to work on: Ruby PostgreSQL Terraform Kubernetes
• Software engineer, 4create, Moscow/Belgrade (2021 – 2022)
  • Delivered integration module of a medical trial application platform with clinical datasouces
  • Changed approach to i18n of several languages and reduced UX latency by 2 times
  • Educated a group of 10 engineers about clinical studies
  • Technologies got to work on: Rails Trailblazer AWS FHIR
• Founder, Lunatic.cat, Moscow (2017 – 2021)
  • Lead and participated in development, launch and support of startups, including web and mobile
  • Grew an own outsourcing team and helped to hire in-house developers
  • Contributed to major open-source projects including Ethereum geth and Rails framework
  • Technologies got to work on: Rust Clojure Solidity React Native
• Backend engineer, Gett, Barnaul/Tel Aviv (2015 – 2017)
  • Refactored monolith to microservices
  • Developed various microservices, including complete solution for pricing strategies
  • Technologies got to work on: Ruby Microservices Docker Opal.rb
• Backend engineer, Onlinetours, Barnaul (2014 – 2015)
  • Added a booking provider
  • Technologies got to work on: JRuby Scala Akka
• Backend engineer, Groupon, Barnaul/Omsk (2013 – 2014)
  • Integrated russian department into global company
  • Developed internal API behind global gateway to serve russian deals
  • Technologies got to work on: Rails PostgreSQL Elasticsearch Kafka Storm
• Fullstack developer, ITC-Labs, Barnaul/Moscow (2011 – 2013)
  • Lead development of твойбилет.рф - air ticket sales, sarbe gds integration
  • Technologies got to work on: Ruby Resque Backbone SOAP Sabre GDS
• Python developer, Interaschool, Barnaul (2011 – 2011)
  • interaschool.ru - online educational platform
  • Technologies got to work on: Python Django PostgreSQL Celery

Other Personal Projects

• I also speak on various tech topics
  • Hacking on clojure.core: video, en
  • Podcast: hardcode.fm host, ru
  • Lecture in ASU university about blockchain: slides, ru
  • Ethereum and smart contracts basics: video, ru, slides, ru
  • Intro to ClojureScript: slides, ru
• maintain the russian translation of ruby-lang.org the Ruby website
  • Available at ruby-lang.org/ru
• the list of awesome Clojure libraries and resources
  • Available at razum2um/awesome-clojure