Alex Fedotyev
Product Manager at ClickHouse
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Fedotyev is a product leader with 10+ years building observability and APM products that turn raw telemetry into fast, actionable investigation workflows. They’ve led Elastic’s Application Observability and SRE experience and now drive ClickStack at ClickHouse, applying ClickHouse’s full-fidelity model and low-latency SQL for large-scale root cause analysis. Deeply hands-on and engineering-fluent, Alex blends systems architecture, data modeling, and UX to solve real-world troubleshooting under partial signals and high complexity. They’ve contributed to notable open-source Elastic projects (beats and integrations), bringing practical Go/Rust backend and DevOps experience to product decisions. Alex is an advocate for pragmatic AI/ML and LLM integration to reduce cognitive load rather than chase novelty. Based in Seattle and trained in math and CS at ITMO University, they combine rigorous technical roots with customer-driven product instincts.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at ITMO University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (20)
docker10
metricbeat10
amazon-elasticsearch10
dockers10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
system-integration10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
devops9
yaml9
apidoc8
continuous-integration8
api8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/integrations
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:45 reviews, 53 commits, 123 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of integrations within the Elastic ecosystem. Their work involved modifying Go code, likely related to fetching user information and interacting with external services. They also focused on backporting fixes, adding new datasets, and implementing platform-specific conditional logic within data streams, demonstrating a strong understanding of system integrations and platform compatibility. Furthermore, the user was involved in adding new integrations, such as a Docker integration, and updating dependencies, highlighting their involvement in overall project maintenance and expansion.
elasticintegrationselasticsearch
elastic/beats
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:423 reviews, 307 commits, 777 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions focused on migrating various modules within the `elastic/beats` repository to ReporterV2, indicating a focus on code modernization and API updates. They implemented `Close()` functions for Docker metricsets, enhancing resource management within this area. Additionally, the user performed refactoring and bug fixes related to system metrics, including a rewrite of the default config for MySQL tests, demonstrating work across the system and infrastructure domains.
tropicalheartbeatlogstashbeatsfilebeat
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