Timur Abishev
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarTimur Abishev is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building robust backend systems and developer tooling, now based in New York. He has deep expertise in large-scale build and data-processing ecosystems, with notable open-source contributions to high-profile projects like Pants, Scalding and Summingbird where he improved classpath handling, serialization, and streaming topologies. At JetBrains he worked on core platform subsystems and editor tooling, and at Twitter he focused on backend engineering across distributed systems. More recently he drove LLM performance and deployment tooling at Baseten and now leads Gelu AI, blending systems-level engineering with ML model serving optimizations. Colleagues know him for practical refactors that increase portability and testability—work that often lives in the infrastructure layer rather than the product UI.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
editors10
cascading10
python10
back-end-development10
dsl10
testing10
data-serialization10
build-system10
editor10
java10
refactor10
serialization10
scala10
zinc10
javas10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/scalding
Jan 2017 - Sep 2021
A Scala API for Cascading
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 70 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Timur primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the `scalding` project, focusing on serialization and data processing aspects. Their commits addressed issues related to Kryo serialization, including fixing serialization of KryoHadoop and `ThrowingSerializer`. They also worked on versioning, correcting a `FileNotFoundException` issue. Furthermore, they refactored and optimized the code, such as removing `TypedPipe#narrowOrdering` and fixing a planning issue for `hashJoin`.
scala
twitter/summingbird
Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
Streaming MapReduce with Scalding and Storm
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 43 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Timur's commits primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing core components within the `summingbird-storm` module. They removed unused imports and deprecated code, specifically targeting the `OperationContainer` in `BaseBolt.scala`. Furthermore, the user updated to Storm API 1.0.2 and refactored the `Storm` platform to introduce `Edge`s and enhance the topology's structure. They also made some changes to the way how `Monoid` instances is serialized through `Externalizer` to make it consistent with other code.
mapreducescalding
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