Summary
Ruslan Kovalev is a seasoned software engineer and SRE with 12 years of experience delivering scalable cloud, networking automation, and back-end systems. He is currently a Software Engineer at Firebolt, building at-scale data and query platforms, after leading cloud interconnect automation and a vendor-agnostic network hardware management daemon at Yandex. At Yandex, he coordinated a team of engineers, implemented HTTP/2 support for the L7 Gateway, and steered major core rewrites that boosted scalability, reliability, and observability. He also led Nebius Israel’s backend redesigns for the support portal and subscription model, and helped cloud support engineers transition to part-time developer roles. Earlier at Yandex Web Search, he delivered a high-throughput metadata delivery service and an ML-based content extractor that underpinned core ranking features and spam defenses. Based in the Tel-Aviv District, Israel, he holds a Master's in Computational and Applied Mathematics from MIPT and has mentored students in algorithms, concurrency, and systems design.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 5 / 5, High School, 5 / 5 at Kaliningrad Marine Liceum
Master's degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 4.9 / 5, Master's degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 4.9 / 5 at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Russian, English, Hebrew