# German Arutyunov

**Principal Engineer** — Malaga, Spain

- Email: germanarutyunov@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/gaarutyunov
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/german-arutyunov/
- CV (docx): /German_Arutyunov_CV.docx

Engineering leader with 7+ years across fintech and SaaS, specialising in AI-powered product development and cross-functional team leadership. Proven track record of owning products end-to-end — from conception to launch — driving measurable outcomes through machine learning, LLM integration, and data-driven decision-making.

## Professional experience

### TradingView — Jan 2025 – Present

*Hybrid, Malaga, Spain*

- Principal Engineer (Apr 2026 – Present)
- Team Lead (Jan 2025 – Apr 2026)

- Developing internal AI platform to accelerate product and software development lifecycle processes _[ai]_
- Designed and developed 2 new products end-to-end, expanding the company's portfolio _[leadership, ai]_
- Optimised team processes accelerating delivery by 30% _[leadership]_
- Founded the Engineering Committee driving 5 global initiatives across CI/CD, telemetry, architecture, and integration testing _[leadership, devops]_
- Built an AI Skills Library embedding AI tooling into the SDLC; ran adoption workshops across engineering teams _[ai, leadership]_
- Prototyped AI-native products to streamline roadmap prioritisation _[ai]_
- Fine-tuned open-weights models for data enrichment pipelines, matching commercial LLM quality at lower cost _[ai, backend]_

### SimplyFi — May 2023 – Jan 2025

*Dubai, UAE*

- CTO

- Led platform adaptation for 3 international markets (Russia, UAE, KSA) across YandexCloud, AWS, and GCP _[devops, leadership]_
- Reduced infrastructure costs by 50% via cloud migration to managed services _[devops]_
- Led the development and integration of 4 new fintech products for SMEs into the platform _[backend, leadership]_

### SimpleFinance Group — Aug 2019 – May 2023

*Moscow, Russia*

- Team Lead
- Senior Software Developer

- Designed micro-frontend architecture (Webpack Module Federation, Angular 12, NgRx) — 5× faster builds, 50% faster development _[frontend]_
- Built CLI tooling in Go for micro-frontend workflows, cutting boilerplate and increasing dev speed by 20% _[backend, frontend]_
- Led Kubernetes migration improving system maintainability by 30% and enhancing scalability _[devops]_
- Reduced downtime by 40% via comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and high-availability infrastructure _[devops, backend]_
- Recruited and mentored a team of 15 engineers, QA, and analysts _[leadership]_

### Loyalty & Media Group — Aug 2018 – Aug 2019

*Moscow, Russia*

- Senior Frontend Developer

- Senior frontend engineering role building loyalty and media products _[frontend]_

## Education

### Higher School of Economics — 2017 – 2023

Moscow, Russia. Master's Degree in Data Analysis and Financial Technologies. GPA 8.0.

## Skills

Go, Python, SQL, PyTorch, MLX, LLM Integration, Fine-tuning, NLP, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Kubernetes, Kafka, CI/CD, Docker, AWS, GCP, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, System Architecture, Team Leadership, Agile, Product Roadmap, Data Vault 2.0

## Languages

- Russian — native
- English — C1
- Spanish — C1

## Areas

- [AI](/ai) ([markdown](/ai.md))
- [leadership](/leadership) ([markdown](/leadership.md))
- [backend](/backend) ([markdown](/backend.md))
- [devops](/devops) ([markdown](/devops.md))
- [frontend](/frontend) ([markdown](/frontend.md))