High-load backend, search systems, and distributed infrastructure.

Boris Tatarintsev

Software engineer from Amsterdam. I build resilient product platforms where throughput, latency and reliability all matter.

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  • Amsterdam, NL
  • 15+ years in software engineering
  • Python / Go / Java / Rust
  • AWS + Serverless

15+

Years building production systems

High-load

Core focus: resilient distributed services

Rust

Personal projects in simulation and language parsing

Selected Work

Public projects from risboo6909.org and GitHub. Each one reflects practical engineering interests.

Galton board preview

Galton Board (Rust/WASM)

Probability simulation rendered in browser with Rust/WebAssembly.

Rust WASM Simulation
Open project
Koch fractal preview

Koch Snowflake

Interactive fractal visualization with adjustable recursion depth.

JavaScript Canvas Fractals
Open project
When parser preview

When (natural language parser)

Natural-language date/time parser written in Rust with HTTP interface.

Rust NLP HTTP
Open project

Experience Timeline

Booking.com

2023 - Present

Order-search platform for internal services, designed for high throughput and low latency.

Stack: AWS Lambda, Step Functions, OpenSearch, MSK.

Avito

2021 - 2022

Backend services and architecture for item cards, plus interviews and mentorship.

Ozon

2019 - 2021

Internal infrastructure services (employee map/search, vacations, goals, performance reviews).

Stack: Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Ceph.

Yandex (video)

2017 - 2019

High-load video backend: playlist serving and CDN balancing for large-scale streaming traffic.

Yandex (monitoring)

2011 - 2017

Real-time cross-datacenter monitoring systems.

Stack: Python, JavaScript, Tornado, Redis, MongoDB, Pyro.

Glu Mobile / Superscape

2006 - 2011

Mobile game development and porting, from J2ME era to commercial releases.

Stack and Focus

Backend

Python, Go, Java for production systems, API services and internal platforms.

Cloud and reliability

AWS/serverless architecture, fault tolerance, observability and delivery quality.

Personal engineering

Rust experiments in simulation, geometry and natural-language date parsing.

Team contribution

Architecture discussions, interviewing, and mentoring engineers.

Education and Personal

MIREA University

2000 - 2005

Specialist degree in Cybernetics. Thesis focus: neural networks for event prediction.

University website
Newton cat photo

Outside work

Chess, gaming, reading, movies, travel, and life with my cat Newton.

Advent of Code

Contact

Open for engineering collaborations and product backend roles.