Summary
Vladimir Yakunin is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of experience building high-performance backend systems, primarily in C++ with practical Python and Java for ML and tooling. He spent over a decade at Google honing large-scale distributed system design before joining Snowflake to drive cloud data platform engineering. His academic grounding in applied mathematics informs a methodical, performance-oriented approach to problem solving and algorithm design. Comfortable across both low-level systems and higher-level ML prototypes, he pairs production-grade coding discipline with curiosity for data-driven features. Colleagues would note his steady career progression and preference for pragmatic, scalable solutions over premature optimization.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Applied math and informatics, MS Applied math and informatics at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky