Alexei Vladishev is an engineer-turned-founder and CEO who has spent over two decades building and scaling a leading open-source monitoring platform that now powers infrastructure in more than 190 countries. Based in Riga, he combines hands-on systems engineering roots with product-first leadership to deliver observability at scale for governments, enterprises, startups, and communities. He started Zabbix as a side project that grew into a mission-driven company known for clean, scalable designs and a strong global open-source community. Alexei’s career traces back to systems roles in banking and architecture at Nomad Software, informing a practical, reliability-focused approach to distributed monitoring. He prioritizes sustainable teams and open tools that solve real operational problems while keeping deployability and transparency central.
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