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Dmitry Cheryasov

• dmitry.cheryasov@gmail.com | 347-295-7280
• US citizen | New York, NY.
• LinkedIn: dcheryasov

What I’m looking for

• A hands-on senior engineer / tech lead position.
• While backend-leaning, I can comfortably work anywhere across the stack.
• I value autonomy and strive to understand, design, and build the thing the business needs.
• I strive working close to product and, if lucky enough, end users.
• I enjoy building things from an idea all the way to production.
• I’m fine with wearing many hats, and love learning new things.
• I prefer building the right thing without haste, but know how to ship important changes sooner.

Technology

• Architecture: monolithic, microservices, distributed, event-based.
• API design: RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC, etc. OpenAPI.
• Python: since 1990s. Django, SQLAlchemy, FastAPI, Flask, etc.
• Javascript: since 2003, Typescript: since 2020. Node.js, React, Next.js, etc.
• SQL and NoSQL databases: since 1990. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, etc. Redis; Cassandra.
• Java: since 1990s. Spring Boot, Gradle, etc.
• Testing: unit, functional, integration. CI/CD.
• Linux, my daily driver.
• Cloud: AWS EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ECR, EKS, Lambda, etc. Docker, Terraform, k8s.

What I try to bring in

• Clear, constant communication and trust among team members, teams, and stakeholders.
• Simple, orthogonal, observable, evolvable systems.
• Best practices, pervasive testing and static checks, FP; thoughtful code review; automation.
• Noticing future problems early on, and avoiding nasty surprises.

What I try to avoid

• Turning into a full-time people manager.
• Heavy multitasking.
• Heroic effort being the normal mode of operation.

Capital Rx Senior Fullstack Developer, Jan 2024 - Oct 2024

• Developed APIs and complex Web UIs for an insurance claims processing product.
• Python, SQLAlchemy; Postgres; AWS; Typescript, React.
• Left to help start up an offline family business.

Coffee Meets Bagel Senior Software Engineer / Tech lead, Apr 2022 - Apr 2023

• Architected and implemented several highly visible features; conversion and revenue increased.
• Coordinated product, mobile, and backend engineers; provided for parallel development of backend and frontend.
• Improved speed and quality of backend code. designed and evolved the API.
• Improved speed and quality of backend tests and CI/CD.
• Python, Django, Postgres, Redis. AWS, Kubernetes.
• Laid off with half of the engineering team. Spring 2023 triggered layoffs across the industry.

Dynaboard Engineer, Oct 2021 - Feb 2022

• Frontend, backend, and product work. Implemented a few features.
• Typescript, React, Nest.js; GraphQL; Jest, yarn, etc.
• Laid off a week after a good performance review.

Facebook Senior Software Engineer, Aug 2020 - Sep 2021

• Worked in FB Messenger’s data API layer. Built service-specific interfaces to the messaging fabric for the various internal users.
• Hack (the language), non-public tools and frameworks.
• Left to join a promising startup as an early employee with big responsibility and big equity.

Click Therapeutics, Inc Senior Software Engineer, Feb 2019 - Jun 2020

• Reworked the architecture of authentication and authorization.
• Designed and implemented backend services, parts of Web frontend.
• Improved the local development environment.
• Improved engineering processes: code review, testing, requirements gathering and design.
• Conducted and actively improved hiring interviews.
• ES6, React, Node.js, Python, Postgres, Docker. AWS (EC2, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc).
• Left to join Facebook (now Meta).

GrubHub, Inc Senior Software Engineer, Nov 2016 - Jan 2019

• Researched, designed, and built data cleaning, import, and export pipelines with third parties and for acquired properties.
• Python, Java, SQL, Cassandra, Spark, queues. AWS, SOA.
• Left to join a promising startup, to grow professionally.

EPAM Systems Senior Software Engineer, Jul 2011 - Jan 2016

• Designed, built, or improved various internal tools at Google NYC as a contractor.
• Worked closely with the prospective users, gathered requirements, discussed designs and prototypes.
• Python, Java, various forms of RPC, Javascript (server-side and client-side). SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Left to grow professionally and financially.

JetBrains Software Engineer, Apr 2008 - Jul 2011

• Worked on PyCharm since inception until release 1.2.
• Determined and built most of the basic features to help assess the viability and market fit of a new Python IDE.
• Java, Python (great many variants). A fully remote team.
• Left to move to NYC and see Google from inside.

Education

• Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Samara State Aerospace University, 1995.
• Undergrad study in Computer Engineering at Samara State Aerospace University, 1991-1994.