# Stephan Zharkov

> Senior Software Engineer at Robinhood

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stephanzharkov

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Developer Experience (DevX). Bazel, CI, build & test infrastructure.

### Software Engineer @ Hearth
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Initiated and lead the construction of rebuilding a dashboard ecosystem, while managing 4 engineers to project completion.
- Created a data pipeline (ETL) for generating sales cycles, which involved auditing and surfacing information on sales team performance, contractor to customer conversion cycles, potential scope and scraping contractor lists for list performance.
- Migrated all Airflow infrastructure to a distributed architecture on AWS ECS, leading to a 60% performance increase to all running jobs.
- Drove enhancing product customer experience with creation of a chatbot as a solution for immediate and automated customer solutions.
- Took full ownership of entire product frontend experience, introduced new standards and tooling, including integration of GraphQL codebase. 
- Advocated and then drove a move to Typescript from Javascript, leading to a 70% reduction in bugs.
- Led and redesigned product development infrastructure during a move to AWS ECS service and Docker.
- Championed countless full stack projects including complex and multifaceted features necessary to the foundation of the product.
- Minimized test run time on CircleCI (testing platform) for team.
- Utilized Typescript, Javascript, Ruby, Python, Airflow,  AWS, CircleCI, Terraform, Redshift, SQL, Lambda, Docker, Rust, Graphql

### Software Engineering Intern @ Tesla
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Designed and implemented a platform to analyze network consumption costs across all Tesla vehicles.
- Architected a big data pipeline using AWS Kinesis, Lambda, API Gateway, and Redshift to process terabytes of network transactions.
- Saved millions of dollars by providing analytical insights to monitor spending costs and by reducing billing costs.
- Utilized React, Mobx, Ruby on Rails, Javascript ES6, Postgres, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Redshift,  AWS, Kinesis, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloudfront.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Massdrop
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Drove growth and signup metrics alongside project managers through large-scale feature development and A/B test implementations.
- Designed and implemented the backend for a moderation tool that auto-hides flagged comments on site, and developed a tool for community moderators to monitor flagged content.
- Utilized Node,  React, Flux, Typescript, Javascript ES6,  SCSS, MySQL, Redis.

### Firmware Application Engineering Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Folsom, CA
- Validated critical issues for unreleased firmware projects and provided clear compliance results.
- Engaged in technical performance testing for firmware-based projects and managed international synchronization for debugging. 
- Focused on releases of firmware applications by a streamlining validation process of six separate architectures.

### Web Developer @ SCB Real Estate
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Davis, CA
- Increased visibility and sales of new condominiums by creating and hosting a company website. 
- Designed and implemented a clean and functional UI. 
- Utilized HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap,  jQuery.

### Senior Team Member @ Estate Sales Help
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Sacramento
- Organized and prepared houses for upcoming sales.
- Advised customers with questions or concerns and assisted in finding merchandise.
- Delivered furniture to customers, ensuring care and proper handling.
- Advertised the sale to local community members .

### Office Intern @ Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora, LLP
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Sacramento, California Area
- Provided translation services for Russian clients.
- Managed and updated medical documents of existing clients.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Davis
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stephan-zharkov

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Last updated: 2026-03-22