Almas Perneshev

About

Full-stack engineer at an early-stage EdTech startup building an AI-tutoring product; owns most of a Django REST backend, CI/CD, and key customer-facing features like FERPA-compliant auth, subscription payments, and real-time LaTeX input/rendering. Also built a /rPlace-style real-time multiplayer canvas (PolyPlace) using microservices, WebSockets, and event sourcing, with performance-focused client rendering (zoom/pan/viewport-based updates) and stress testing.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Designed and built real-time multiplayer system using WebSockets with microservices (auth + main server + client)
• Applied event-sourcing to maintain consistent shared state and enable resilience to dropped connections
• Full-stack ownership in startup environment (product features + DevOps/infra)
• Built and owned production Django REST backend with domain-based API organization, serializers, and RBAC
• Implemented Firebase JWT verification via custom server-side authentication classes
• Implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions including Playwright E2E tests on every PR and automated deployments
• Designed complex PostgreSQL schema for EdTech product (users/students/instructors/classrooms/masteries/subscriptions) with performance indexing
• Delivered polished React+TypeScript UX for math input/rendering and high-performance zoom/pan canvas rendering
• Conducted stress testing via scripts simulating concurrent WebSocket connections
• Provides technical leadership via PR reviews and design guidance for a team of ~10 engineers