Summary
Maria Terekhina is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of experience building large-scale data processing and microservice systems. She has driven production features at Back Market and built user profiling and audience-segmentation services at Yandex using C++, Java, Python, NodeJS and SQL, combining strong systems thinking with pragmatic engineering practices. Maria emphasizes testing, code reviews, and maintainability, and continuously studies new technologies to deepen her craft. Her background in applied linguistics and early work on translation tooling hints at a talent for modeling complex, structured data and bridging technical and human-centered requirements. Colleagues describe her as a steady executor who brings rigor to data-intensive backend problems while staying curious and collaborative.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Linguistics, 9.23/10, Bachelor's degree, Applied Linguistics, 9.23/10 at Higher School of Economics
English, Russian, Italian, German