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Evgenii Rodionov

@evgeniirodionov

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Staff backend and distributed-systems engineer building privacy-first, high-throughput AI platforms.

Indonesia

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for Staff/Tech Lead roles at remote-first companies to own production-scale backends and distributed systems, lead migrations and on-call ownership, and ship privacy-first AI features with measurable customer impact.

I’m a Staff-level backend engineer with 9+ years architecting high-throughput distributed systems and ML/AI platforms using TypeScript/Node.js. I’m currently founder/CTO of Anketta (anketta.app), where I built and operate a privacy-first, text-first dating product with AI-driven semantic matching and live production usage.

Previously at a Y Combinator-backed B2B SaaS, I spotted and fixed a long-standing credit-metering click-attribution bug, driving ~30% revenue lift, and led zero-downtime migrations to modernized Node/TypeScript backends. I’m seeking Staff Engineer / Tech Lead roles at remote-first companies where I can own production-scale backends, guide distributed-system design, and ship measurable customer impact.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Founder & CTO

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Anketta

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Founded and built Anketta, a privacy-first text-first dating app, delivering 99.5% 14-day rolling availability across 8 backend microservices and 2 frontend apps. Architected Kafka saga/outbox pipelines, real-time WebSockets, self-hosted embedding-based semantic matching with pgvector, and a cascaded moderation system with circuit breakers.

TypeScript Kubernetes Kafka Kafka Transactional Outbox & Saga Patterns WebSockets Pgvector Cascaded AI Content Moderation

Business Aviation / Private Jet SaaS

RusJet

Jan 2025 - Jul 2025 (6 months)

Drove a cross-team architectural alignment on a shared Nest.js auth library across REST and GraphQL teams (~16 engineers across 2 teams via 2 team leads): mediated the dispute between Team A's native REST decorators and Team B's non-native GraphQL implementation, and brokered a compromise where Team B kept GraphQL - eliminated ongoing integration overhead in ~2 weeks.

Y Combinator-backed B2B SaaS

Confidential

May 2019 - Dec 2024 (5 years 7 months)

Spotted a long-standing click-attribution bug in the credit-metering pipeline - the event tracker only registered left-clicks, missing middle-click and context-menu opens, common interactions on recommendation widgets. surfaced a click-attribution bug in the credit-metering pipeline whose fix drove a ~30% revenue lift, and led a zero-downtime migration microservice