Vlad Emelianov
Talent & Technical Screener at Toptal
Antalya, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolVlad Emelianov is a seasoned software engineer and technical screener with 17 years of experience building high-throughput systems, leading teams, and vetting top engineering talent at Toptal. He started his career at Russia’s largest IT companies and has since sharpened his craft across Germany, New Zealand, and the United States, now based in Antalya, Turkey. His hands-on background spans backend services in Go and C++, Python tooling, front-end React integrations, and large-scale data pipelines processing terabytes daily. As the author of AWS boto3 type annotations and a Typed Python evangelist, he brings strong advocacy for type safety and modern developer ergonomics. Beyond coding, he has run deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and production automation while mentoring teams of up to seven engineers. Vlad combines deep engineering rigor with practical hiring and project management experience, making him adept at aligning technical standards with product needs.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Advanced Computer Science, Master's degree, Advanced Computer Science at Auckland University of TechnologyMaster's degree, Information Security, Master's degree, Information Security at National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)
German, Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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7answers
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Github Skills (130)
programming-language10
python10
annotations10
autocomplete10
linter10
serverless10
yaml-configuration10
conda-forge10
githubactions10
sublime-text10
mypy10
serverless-applications10
pyright10
dynamodb10
typeshed10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
altitudenetworks/newversion
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 84 commits, 18 pushes in 8 months
youtype/types-s3transfer
Jul 2022 - Nov 2025
Type annotations for s3transfer package
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 64 pushes in 3 years 5 months
type-annotations
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