Vasil Kulakov

Versatile certified software engineer β€’ Experienced Engineering Manager

20+ Years Experience

I'm a Russian citizen. I don't support my government in what they call "special military operation in Ukraine". Russians are against the war.

About Me

9 key facts that define my professional journey

  1. I was born in the winter of 1987 in Moscow region. My parents were physicists.
  2. Since my childhood I loved computers and everything connected to them.
  3. I sold my first program in 9th grade.
  4. The university I graduated from was MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute).
  5. I passed an exam and an interview to special IBM group in my university.
  6. I was the best student in my group in computer science.
  7. I earned an MBA degree in economics and management.
  8. I speak English at C2 Proficient level - EF SET Certificate (77/100) - and German at B1 level.
  9. Versatile software engineer. Communicative. Non-smoking.

Key Skills & Experience

Professional expertise built over 15+ years of real-world development

  • Working on real-life projects since 2005
  • Symfony development since 2011
  • Golang development since 2019 with production microservices experience
  • Recruited and managed international development teams since 2009
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Service Reliability Management (SRM) expertise
  • Working with C-level executives in international companies
  • Passed Zend Certification exam and became Zend Certified Engineer in 2015
  • Google Cloud certifications:
  • Familiar with the problems of developing and supporting complex projects; Over the years I have tried many approaches to solving them
  • I have successful experience in implementing a continuous development process based on SCRUM using JIRA, GIT, and automation tools Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

Technologies & Tools

The list of technologies and tools I've worked with is quite extensive. Below are the technologies I use daily in my professional activity.

Backend Development
PHP, Symfony, Golang, PHPUnit, Codeception
Data & Messaging
RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL
AI & Machine Learning
AI agentic tools, Vertex AI
Cloud & Infrastructure
Google Cloud Infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Helm
Development Tools
GIT, JIRA, Semaphore, Jenkins, Cloud platforms

Detailed information about my professional experience you can find on my LinkedIn profile

Get In Touch

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Phone
+49-178-268-90-16
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Email
vasily.kulakov@gmail.com
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Telegram
@coylone