Fifteen years of distributed infrastructure, engineering leadership, and a deep belief that great systems empower great teams.
About
Stan Sobolev is a Staff Engineer and System Architect specializing in distributed systems that handle millions of requests daily. With over fifteen years building scalable platforms, he has designed event-driven architectures, led engineering teams, and mentored dozens of engineers on their path to Staff+ level.
Selected Work
Multi-region event-driven architectures handling millions of daily transactions with sub-50ms p99 latency at steady state.
Structured mentorship that moved engineers from mid to staff level — pairing technical coaching with career navigation.
Consolidated fragmented services into coherent internal platforms, reducing time-to-production from weeks to days.
Open Source
Media-download ecosystem: terminal UI + Telegram bot on a shared Rust core. Downloads from 1000+ platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, SoundCloud). Audio effects, video-to-notes, 4 languages.
Tokio · teloxide · ratatui · FFmpeg · yt-dlp · Axum · SQLite
Single-tenant Telegram reader and automation tool. Web dashboard for reading channels and automating messaging pipelines. JWT auth, background job scheduler, local session management.
FastAPI · Next.js · SQLite · Docker Compose · pytest
Browser multiplayer poker engine. 7 variants (Hold'em, Omaha, Short Deck, Pineapple, Joker). P2P via WebRTC + server matchmaker. Ed25519 signed protocol. 4-tier bot AI. 300+ tests.
Vite · PeerJS · WebSocket · @noble/ed25519 · Node.js · SQLite
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