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    "notes": "Shield Swap metrics are public product data (DefiLlama, 2026-10-22), not personal attribution."
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    "name": "Tim Mustafin",
    "label": "Lead Engineer | Platform Engineering & Site Reliability Engineering",
    "email": "tim@mustafin.dev",
    "summary": "Lead engineer with 10+ years in platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE) and backend development. Hands-on experience in Kubernetes, multi-cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and leading a team of 7 engineers.",
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        "username": "14MR",
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        "network": "GitLab",
        "username": "mr14mr",
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        "network": "Telegram",
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        "Work on infrastructure, CI/CD, releases, monitoring and incident response for a confidential trading venue on Aleo, from development through early access.",
        "Supported assets: USDCx, wrapped BTC, ETH, SOL, ALEO.",
        "Public product metrics (DefiLlama, 2026-10-22): TVL ~$1.97M (up from ~$463K on 2026-08-23), $42.1M cumulative DEX volume, $26.8M 30-day volume, ~5.5K transactions/day."
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      "name": "Yoloco",
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      "summary": "Influencer-marketing analytics (audience quality, location, overlap).",
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        "Built and led a team of 7 engineers; owned team and task management plus system, infrastructure and database design.",
        "Released 3 new services that automated manual analytical work and increased company revenue.",
        "Migrated from Azure VMs to infrastructure-as-code on GKE (GCP).",
        "Released a new ETL pipeline that cut costs by ~60%."
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      "name": "X5 Retail Group",
      "position": "SRE / DevOps Engineer",
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      "endDate": "2021-04",
      "location": "Innopolis, Russia",
      "highlights": [
        "Built and supported CI/CD for a Java/React application across Kubernetes and VMs.",
        "Improved observability by integrating logging, alerting and error tracking (Loki, Sentry, Prometheus stack).",
        "Participated in incident response."
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        "GitLab CI",
        "Kafka",
        "observability"
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      "position": "Backend Developer / DevOps Engineer",
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      "endDate": "2020-06",
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        "Backend development (Django, PostgreSQL) and a distributed data retrieval/processing pipeline (Celery, Redis).",
        "Big-data processing on ClickHouse; ML model deployment; CI/CD and infrastructure (Docker, GitLab CI, Azure, GCP)."
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      "position": "Backend Developer",
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        "Backend development, infrastructure deployment, system and API design, third-party integrations, technical support for external developers (Django, Flask, Celery, GraphQL, Vue.js, Docker, GitLab CI)."
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    },
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      "position": "Software Developer",
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      "description": "Unofficial iOS and Android client for the edu.tatar.ru e-diary system, built with a small team; distributed cross-platform parser; 100K+ monthly active users at peak. No longer maintained.",
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