# Serguei Khasimkhanov > Software Developer with a passion for elegant code. Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/serguei Software Dev passionate about solving difficult problems and making peoples' lives better. Future startup founder πŸ‘€. Domains: Interested in AI, large-scale systems, and streamlining inefficient systems with modern technology. Career: I prefer backend-leaning full-stack roles, ideally remote or in Seattle. Open to relocating to SF, but not NYC. Need TN visa / green card sponsorship. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Stripe Jan 2022 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States Risk Engineering Managing risk for 1% of global GDP ### Full Stack Developer (Machine Learning) @ TTSLabs Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Toronto, ON β€’ Trained deep learning models on text and customer audio data to synthesize speech. β€’ Used AWS services to build highly scalable serverless application with API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, S3, and Cognito. β€’ Developed Electron app with React, Redux, and Material UI, with a highly optimized text-to-speech pipeline to minimize latency before start of audio. β€’ Sold licenses starting from $2,000 USD to top influencers and streamers including: Alinity, Sodapoppin, Mizkif, Pokelawls, and Quin69 (100,000+ combined daily viewers). ### Software Developer @ Canvas GFX Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada β€’ Lead development for integration of cloud synchronization into C++ desktop app. β€’ Developed NodeJS TypeScript backend microservice for converting proprietary 3D documents to browser compatible format. β€’ Implemented feature-rich 3D model manipulation on frontend Angular app. β€’ Reduced S3 bucket traffic and load time by implementing local offline caching in user storage, speeding up application start time by 50% and reducing S3 costs by 15%. ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Toronto Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area β€’ Teaching Assistant for Data Structures, Networks, and Information Security. β€’ Designed assignments for data structure theory and practicals for networks and pen testing. β€’ Conducted code reviews, grading, and office hours for over 500 students. ### Software Engineer Intern (Machine Learning) @ Ark Paradigm Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Canada Area β€’ Trained machine learning models for natural language processing with SciPy. β€’ Developed in-house ML library, used to manage machine learning lifecycle. β€’ Increased accuracy of text analysis by 80% with word2vec, doc2vec, and tf-idf algorithms. ### Automation Engineer Intern @ League Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area β€’ Developed a REST server (Python) to host the platform-independent automated testing procedures (e.g. user creation) to speed up test development and runtimes. β€’ Built an automated testing framework (Java + Selenium) to streamline web test creation. β€’ Created a multi-threaded stress testing service in Python to detect bottlenecks in backend servers. β€’ Integrated automated TestRail logging to aggregate and analyze test results, detect slow and unreliable tests, and speed them up while reducing false positive rate. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Rakuten Kobo Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Toronto, Canada Area β€’ Writing start-up scripts (Linux + Bash), build scripts for the website backend (Maven + Gradle), and deployment scripts (Jenkins), to maintain the QA-deployment process for Kobo Writing Life. β€’ Maintained the Java backend for Kobo Writing Life by completing Jira tickets in an Agile environment. β€’ Learned how to manage time, how to fearlessly change existing code, how to ask for help, how to perform Test-Driven Development, what to prioritize when writing software, and how to communicate problems/concerns with others. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Rakuten Kobo Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Toronto, Canada Area ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science University of Toronto Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/skhasimkhanov --- Source: https://flows.cv/serguei JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/serguei/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29