Aidar Samerkhanov
Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAidar Samerkhanov is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in database internals, query optimization, and AI-driven optimization techniques. He has led high-impact work on distributed OLAP/OLTP systems at Yandex (YDB) and Huawei (GaussDB), pioneering vectorized query execution with Apache Arrow and exploring machine-learning approaches to join-order and adaptive optimization. Aidar combines hands-on performance tuning—from TPC-DS improvements to fast data warehouse loaders—with architecture and team leadership across cloud migrations and data-platform builds. He has driven practical tooling and benchmarking (including a YDB workload tool) and built reliable migration strategies for Kafka and ETL at scale. Based in Kazan, he blends deep academic training (Master’s in Computer Science) with a pragmatic focus on measurable throughput and latency gains, often finding novel intersections between research papers and production systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Kazan State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (95)
graph-algorithms10
high-availability10
testing10
graph-database10
terraform10
cpp10
cloud-native10
agentic-ai10
streaming10
nosql10
packer10
cypher10
sql10
ai10
golang10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Darych/ydb
Dec 2023 - Aug 2024
YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions
Contributions:75 pushes, 38 branches in 8 months
Darych/rocksdb
Sep 2023 - Sep 2025
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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