# Valentin Poliakov

> Software Engineer at Verkada

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/valentinpoliakov

Most of my professional experience is in full-stack / backend engineering, but I'm interested in everything from whitewater kayaking to building 2v2 chess engines!

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Verkada
Jan 2022 – Present | San Mateo, CA

### Software Engineer @ TigerGraph
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Redwood Shores, CA
• Continued development of TigerGraph Cloud, a distributed graph-database-as-a-service platform in Go
• Improved graph cluster provisioning time from an average of 20 min to 8 min (Go, Distributed Systems)
• Implemented provisioning of graph solutions on GCP (Go, PostgreSQL, Terraform, GCP)
• Integrated with AWS, Azure, and GCP marketplaces' user sign-in and billing
• Added support for VPC peering with users’ VPCs for AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Integrated with Teleport to allow secure RBAC to provisioned graph clusters and prod DB (Go, Teleport, Distributed Systems)
• Onboarded and mentored 3 teammates

### Software Engineer @ Koko
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
• In a team of 2, designed an app for visualization and analysis of motion data with motion tracks playback, motion heat maps, supertracks, areas of interest etc. (React, Redux, TypeScript, Sass, Java, PostgreSQL)
• Implemented device firmware update logic supporting different versioning branches, critical versions, auto-updating etc. (Java, Flatbuffers, PostgreSQL)
• Built a management console for users, devices, firmware versions, etc. (React, Redux, TypeScript, Java, PostgreSQL)
• Wrote a module allowing to record audio messages and store them on S3. (React, Redux, TypeScript, Java, AWS S3)

### Full Stack Engineer @ TigerGraph
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Redwood Shores, CA
• In a team of 3, built a distributed graph-database-as-a-service platform in Go - tgcloud.io
• Built the usage / billing service, responsible for calculating users’ cloud usage and balance, monthly billing via Stripe and invoice / receipt emailing with AWS SES
• Built the user authentication / management service (Go, PostgreSQL, Auth0, JWT)
• Implemented provisioning of graph solutions on Azure (Go, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Azure)
• Built a daemon for managing cloud graph solutions (Go, Distributed Systems)
• Built multiple internal tools for monitoring AWS / Azure usage, unused resources cleanup, monitoring user conversion rate and other cloud usage statistics
• Built the CICD pipeline (Jenkins, Groovy, Docker, Terraform)
• Built back end for TigerGraph test drive - testdrive.tigergraph.com (Go, Docker, Python, Terraform)

### Software Engineer Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Folsom, CA
• Built an internal tool for analysis and visualization of gigabytes of processor performance data (TypeScript, SQL)
• Optimized speed of the data processing algorithm by 500%, from average of 1.5s to 0.25s per filter application
• Received an award for “invaluable contribution to the project”


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of California, Davis
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Economics
University of California, Davis
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/poliakov-valentin

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Last updated: 2026-03-22