Ruslan Khasanshin
hu553insenior software engineer — product & platform
About
I build products end to end and the platform foundations behind them — distributed systems, developer tooling, observability, and product UI.
Over eight years, I’ve shipped software across insurance, travel, contact-center SaaS, and creator tooling. I’m most useful when the requirements are incomplete, the system is unfinished, and someone has to turn that ambiguity into something reliable in production.
I tend to go deep on products I care about: tracing edge cases, tightening the model, reducing operational ambiguity, and polishing things long after the happy path works.
Work
Joined while QIC’s new Go-based motor-insurance backend was still an incomplete pre-production rewrite. Helped take it through a phased production launch, built the observability foundation used across 25 services, and co-owned the backend launch of QIC Travel as part of a small backend team.
Built and operated five Java/Kotlin microservices for a cloud contact-center CRM. Reduced response time for a frequently called API from approximately 800 ms to 150 ms, added approximately 800–1,000 automated tests, and acted as tech lead for five engineers during the final 18 months.
Built external and internal products with Java/Kotlin/Spring and React/TypeScript across the full development cycle. Led one project and taught introductory programming courses.
Skills
Projects
A pre-launch bilingual creator platform for video, subscriptions, paid access, discovery, community, and moderation.
I own the domain model, architecture, implementation, CI, and operations; product vision, design, and user workflows are developed with my wife.
A browser-only GitHub Actions workflow dashboard for multiple repositories.
A Cloudflare Telegram bot for Dota 2 schedules, live matches, results, and favorites.
A GitHub Action that generates Neofetch-style SVG profile cards with daily ASCII art and live GitHub stats.
An Electron desktop app for live speech transcription and translated captions.
Writing & speaking
How a shared Go platform library, a service template, and a dependency policy reduce cross-service divergence during a backend migration.
A conference talk on architecture, caching, horizontal scaling, observability, and failure handling.
Interests
AI launches watched live, like season finales.
Open source that changes how I work.
Self-hosting, VPNs, and the hobbyist end of hacking.
Vibe coding sharp little utilities — most die young, and that’s fine.
Product design, especially the tiny details nobody asked me to polish.
Borya the Welsh Corgi, voomy’s third founder.
A full-black Toyota Yaris and any excuse for a long drive.
Fashion — deeply loved, lazily practiced.
An unreasonable amount of movies, series, and no-name Twitch streamers — with my wife, always.