Rustem ALKAPOV
I build planet‑scale high‑load systems — placing hundreds of thousands of jobs across a global fleet, and resolving the business goals that cannot all be satisfied at once.
- Role
- Senior Software Engineer · Tech Lead
- Domain
- Planet‑scale high‑load systems
- Base
- London, United Kingdom
TRAJECTORY
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Google
Senior Software Engineer · Tech Lead
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Yandex
Voice Assistant Infrastructure
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SUSU
BSc + MSc, Computer Science, Honours
Now
Cluster managers pack work onto machines inside a datacentre. I work the layer above — distributing workloads across regions so placement follows what the business needs, largely through market‑based allocation, and increasingly with machine learning behind those decisions.
Before
At Yandex I designed and improved voice assistant functionality and the AI recognition behind it, working on the quality of its responses and the experience of the people talking to it — and owned the request path from device to backend, from the API other teams built on to the models in the intent pipeline.
Co‑authored research on real‑time defect detection for steel manufacturing IEEE GloSIC 2018
Planet Scale Systems
- Distributed system design
- Workload distribution
- Market‑based allocation
- Async processing at scale
- Applied ML
- Computer Vision
- LLM Systems
Go · C++ · Python · Rust
Go, the board game, too.