# CV - Damir Mukimov

**Founder & Chief Technology Officer**  
City Resource Graph | Glowing Pixels UG

**Contact Information:**
- Address: Coppistr. 12, 10365 Berlin, Germany
- Phone: +49 (1520) 232 85 98
- Email: damir@mukimov.com
- Website: www.mukimov.com
- LinkedIn: [to be added]

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## Professional Summary

Experienced Engineering Manager and CTO with 15+ years in software development, specializing in distributed systems, API design, and infrastructure automation. Led cross-functional engineering teams at scale-up companies, built core technology platforms, and founded multiple technology startups. Expertise in Go, Ruby/Rails, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure. Currently founding City Resource Graph, an industrial symbiosis platform using graph-based resource matching algorithms.

**Relevant Expertise for City Resource Graph:**
- Graph-based matching algorithms and distributed systems
- API design and microservices architecture
- Infrastructure automation (K8s, Docker, CI/CD)
- Team leadership and technical strategy
- Startup experience (EXIST Business Start-up Grant participant, Antler Startup Program)
- Circular economy and sustainability technology

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## Professional Experience

### Founder & CTO | City Resource Graph / Glowing Pixels UG
**September 2022 – Present | Berlin, Germany**

- Leading development of industrial symbiosis platform using graph databases (Neo4j) and spatial analytics (PostGIS)
- Architecting distributed matching engine for multi-resource optimization (heat, water, waste, materials)
- Building Go 1.25 stack with Neo4j, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and microservices architecture
- Managing technical team and defining product strategy for circular economy platform
- Developing resource matching algorithms for industrial symbiosis applications

**Key Achievements:**
- Designed graph-based resource matching architecture
- Implemented hybrid Neo4j + PostGIS spatial-temporal matching engine
- Built MVP for heat flow matching with manual entry and map visualization
- Defined technical roadmap for 18-month product development cycle

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### Founder & CTO | Glowing Pixels UG
**September 2022 – Present | Berlin, Germany**

- Founded technology consulting company
- Providing CTO services and technical consulting
- Specializing in IT infrastructure, ML systems, Ruby, Go, and Kubernetes
- Delivering consulting work on IT and infrastructure for ML, Ruby, Golang and K8S projects

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### Participant | Antler Startup Program
**October 2022 – April 2023 | Berlin, Germany**

- Participated in Antler Startup Program - leading global early-stage VC and startup generator
- Explored startup opportunities and validated business ideas
- Built network and connections within the startup ecosystem
- Gained experience in startup ideation, validation, and early-stage development

**Key Learnings:**
- Startup ideation and validation processes
- Early-stage business model development
- Startup ecosystem and networking
- Applied these learnings to City Resource Graph project

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### Engineering Manager | Homeday GmbH
**September 2020 – October 2022 | Berlin, Germany**

- Led 2 cross-functional engineering teams of 5-8 engineers each
- Extensive hiring and team building
- Planning and shaping technical backlog together with engineering teams
- Partnered with cross-functional designers, engineers, product owners, BI and operational teams for process definitions and project implementation
- QA Department setup and hiring
- Stakeholder communication and cross-team coordination

**Key Achievements:**
- Built and led high-performing engineering teams
- Established QA processes and department
- Implemented agile development practices
- Improved development velocity and code quality

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### Lead Web Developer | HERE Deutschland GmbH
**February 2019 – August 2020 | Berlin, Germany**

- Led development of documentation platform (verification, building and publishing automation) for more than 300 projects within the company
- Automated documentation pipeline and publishing workflows
- Improved developer experience and documentation quality

**Key Achievements:**
- Reduced documentation publishing time by 80%
- Automated verification and building processes
- Managed documentation for 300+ projects

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### Lead Fullstack Developer | Getsafe GmbH
**May 2018 – January 2019 | Karlsruhe, Germany**

- Defined requirements and built tools for internal client operations
- Automated internal processes
- Helped improve development processes
- Integrated Jira in development workflows
- Improved backend performance

**Key Achievements:**
- Increased operational efficiency through automation
- Improved backend response times
- Enhanced development workflow integration

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### Chief Technology Officer | Mind Intelligence UG
**April 2017 – March 2018 | Berlin, Germany**

- **Participant of EXIST Business Start-up Grant program** (German federal startup funding)
- Developed architecture and core technology for empathy recognition based on voice analysis using Deep Learning methods
- Founded and managed development team and freelancers
- Developed various MVPs for market testing
- Managed technology strategy and product development

**Key Achievements:**
- Successfully received EXIST Business Start-up Grant
- Built ML-based voice analysis platform
- Validated market through multiple MVPs

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### Ruby on Rails Developer | Distribusion Technologies GmbH
**October 2012 – September 2014, April 2015 – March 2017 | Berlin, Germany**

- Designed and developed core API
- Separated monolith application into smaller applications
- Built responsive front-end using BEM technology
- Integrated SOAP and JSON APIs with partners
- Built and managed localization processes for more than 10 languages
- Interviewed new developers
- Managed CI and test infrastructure
- Implemented microservice architecture
- Created internal gems for simplifying partner integrations
- Built Go application for big CSV files pre-processing

**Key Achievements:**
- Successfully decomposed monolith into microservices
- Improved partner integration efficiency
- Established localization processes for 10+ languages

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### Ruby on Rails Developer | OOO "Sirena-Bus"
**October 2014 – April 2015 | Moscow, Russia**

- Developed back-end and front-end applications
- Wrote AngularJS front-end (views and controllers) for Rails back-end
- Built infrastructure for app deployment and server configuration with Ansible

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### Research Associate and Project Manager | National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)
**2009 – 2014 | Moscow, Russia**

- Conducted research and development on new sensors and their applications
- Wrote software for microcontrollers (AVR, PIC, ARM)
- Wrote PC and mobile software for testing MEMS sensors
- Developed biomedical device for vital signs monitoring
- Presented products at exhibitions
- Made oral and poster presentations at international science conferences
- Managed science projects from writing applications to team forming, reports writing and final commissioning

**Key Achievements:**
- Managed multiple research projects
- Developed biomedical monitoring devices
- Presented at international conferences
- **2nd Place Winner** - "Эврика" (Eureka) Competition for Breakthrough Ideas at Moscow State University (MSU), December 2014
  - Project: "Safeband" - Safety bracelet measuring vital body indicators and determining when medical help is needed
  - Organized by MSU Center for National Intellectual Reserve and MSU Business Incubator with support from Gazprombank
  - Selected from 600 competing teams in the "Best Idea" nomination
  - Recognized for innovation and commercial potential in biomedical technology

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## Side Projects & Entrepreneurship

### Simplify Traffic (Legacy/Inactive)
**www.simplify-traffic.com**

Service for intercity bus fleet monitoring and data analytics. *(Project no longer actively maintained)*
- Project planning and architecture design
- Architecture and documentation development
- Core API development on Ruby
- Built Docker infrastructure
- Managed front-end (Angular 2 and React) and Android developers

**Technologies Used:** Ruby, Angular 2, React, Docker, REST APIs

### Tercul

Project to create a website with a database of artists (poets, writers, etc.) with their works translated into many languages.

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## Education

### Master's Degree in Computer Science
**2011 – 2013 | Glyndŵr University, Wrexham, United Kingdom**

### Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering
**2009 – 2011 | National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), Moscow, Russia**

### Interpreter in Professional Communication (English)
**National Research University of Electronic Technology, Moscow, Russia**

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## Languages

- **English**: Fluent
- **Russian**: Native
- **German**: Basic (improving)

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## Technical Skills

### Leadership & Management
- Servant Leadership, Mentoring, Inspiring and Motivating
- Processes Definition and Optimisation
- Cross-Functional Communication
- Team Building and Hiring

### Programming Languages & Frameworks
- **Go**: Advanced (microservices, concurrent systems, graph algorithms)
- **Ruby/Rails**: Advanced (API design, monolith decomposition)
- **TypeScript/JavaScript**: Advanced (ReactJS, AngularJS, front-end development)
- **Python**: Intermediate (ML/AI applications)

### Infrastructure & DevOps
- **Kubernetes**: Advanced (container orchestration, cloud infrastructure)
- **Docker**: Advanced (containerization, CI/CD)
- **CI/CD**: Advanced (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, automation)
- **Infrastructure as Code**: Ansible, Terraform
- **Cloud Platforms**: AWS, GCP

### Databases & Data
- **Neo4j**: Advanced (graph databases, Cypher queries)
- **PostgreSQL/PostGIS**: Advanced (spatial databases, geospatial queries)
- **Redis**: Advanced (caching, message queues)
- **Database Design**: Advanced (relational and graph schemas)

### Other Technologies
- API Design (REST, GraphQL, SOAP)
- Microservices Architecture
- System Architecture & Design
- Test Infrastructure & QA

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## Certifications & Programs

- **EXIST Business Start-up Grant** participant (German federal startup funding program)
- **Antler Startup Program** participant (October 2022 – April 2023) - Leading global early-stage VC and startup generator

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## Publications & Presentations

- Multiple presentations at international science conferences (research period)
- Technical blog posts and documentation (professional experience)

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## Additional Information

**Current Focus:** Building City Resource Graph - an industrial symbiosis platform that enables resource matching and optimization for circular economy applications. The platform uses graph-based matching algorithms to connect businesses for resource sharing (heat, water, waste, materials).

**Relevant Experience for Funding Applications:**
- Successfully received EXIST Business Start-up Grant (proven track record with German funding)
- Participated in Antler Startup Program (exposure to early-stage VC ecosystem and startup validation)
- **2nd Place Winner** in "Эврика" (Eureka) Innovation Competition at Moscow State University (selected from 600 teams) - demonstrates innovation competition success
- Experience leading engineering teams and technical strategy
- Expertise in the exact technologies required for City Resource Graph (Go, Neo4j, PostGIS, microservices)
- Strong background in API design and distributed systems
- Experience building and scaling technology platforms

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*Last Updated: November 2025*