Vas Soshnikov
Head Of Development Department at Mail.Ru Group
Russia
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Top SchoolVas Soshnikov is a seasoned software leader with 13+ years of experience building high-performance web services and distributed systems, currently heading the Development Department at Mail.Ru Group in Moscow. He designs architectures for heavy-load environments, contributes to DevOps and Nginx modules, and has driven projects from a distributed columnar storage to the Tarantool in-memory database. An active open-source committer, his work spans notable projects like Tarantool, Centrifugo and Intel MRAA, reflecting deep systems and C/C++ expertise. His background includes mission-critical reimplementations at RBC—such as a custom TV-stream capture and CDN pipeline—and academic research involving CUDA and numerical modeling. Equally comfortable in code and leadership, he publishes technical articles and speaks at conferences, and combines practical production delivery with a taste for exploring new technologies.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
high diploma Analytic, high diploma Analytic at Ulyanovsk state university
English
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Github Skills (114)
reverse-proxy10
python10
health-check10
websocket10
spi10
tengine10
intel-edison10
lua10
webserver10
rest-api10
fingerprinting10
cpp10
linux10
rest10
tarantool10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tarantool/nginx_upstream_module
Apr 2015 - Nov 2019
Tarantool NginX upstream module (REST, JSON API, websockets, load balancing)
Contributions:24 releases, 260 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 8 months
json-apiload-balancingnginxresttarantool
tarantool/tarantool-curl
Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 76 commits, 4 PRs in 9 months
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