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About

Valentin Telegin

Valentin
Telegin

Valentin
Telegin

Contributed to building the first mobile version of Yandex Maps — today used by tens of millions of users every month around the world. Developed one of Russia's first GPS-based traffic algorithms. Led the development of Rostelecom's digital products with an audience of over 4.5 million monthly active users.

IEEE Senior Member — a status granted to fewer than 10% of the organization's specialists. Member of RAEC and expert at the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Speaker at leading industry conferences (Mobius, CrossConf, and others), author of publications in professional outlets.

20+
years in development and architecture
4M+
monthly active users
<1 sec
UI response time
100M+
Yandex Maps downloads

Expertise

01

Distributed Systems Architecture

Design of mobile-first systems integrated with backend services: caching, prefetching, fault tolerance, and geo-distributed architectures

02

Performance & UX Engineering

Decoupling user experience from backend limitations: cache-first strategies and sub-second perceived latency

03

Cross-Platform Strategy

Architecture-driven adoption of Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, and native stacks based on product and scaling needs

04

Engineering Leadership

Building and scaling engineering organizations (100+ engineers), hiring, team development, and technical leadership

05

Platform & Product Engineering

Development of high-load products serving millions of users: user-facing platforms and high-load scenarios

06

CI/CD & DevOps

End-to-end delivery processes: release automation, mobile CI/CD pipelines, reliability, and production observability

Career

CTO, Head of Mobile Development

January 2019 — present

ABBYY2 years 10 months

Head of Android Development

May 2014 — February 2017

Yandex4 years 7 months

Lead Software Engineer

April 2007 — October 2011

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