Alexey Palazhchenko
Engineering Director at FerretDB
Yerevan, Armenia
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Top SchoolAlexey Palazhchenko is an engineering leader and founder with 17 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, developer tools, and cloud services from prototype to production. As Co-Founder and CTO of FerretDB he led product, team, and a cloud offering that positioned itself as an open-source MongoDB alternative and even shipped a v2.0 in partnership with Microsoft. Now an Engineering Director at Workato, he combines deep Go/Python/Ruby expertise with a DevOps mindset—his open-source contributions include fixes and features across notable projects like golang/go, Prometheus, and ClickHouse exporters. He’s comfortable across the stack: ORMs, database drivers, monitoring exporters, protobuf/GRPC APIs, and CI pipelines—often focusing on robustness, compatibility, and testing. Based in Yerevan, he brings entrepreneurial grit (and a taste for scrappy engineering decisions) alongside a history of successfully shipping and scaling complex backend platforms.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Sarov State Institute of Physics and TechnologyNational Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (64)
monitoring10
git10
json10
ruby-rails10
apidoc10
mysql10
testing10
databases10
time-series10
rails10
exporter10
cicd10
ruby10
query-parser10
go10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
ClickHouse/clickhouse_exporter
Aug 2017 - Jul 2020
This is a simple server that periodically scrapes ClickHouse stats and exports them via HTTP for Prometheus(https://prometheus.io/) consumption.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexey contributed to the ClickHouse exporter project by adding new features, fixing bugs, and improving the overall functionality of the exporter. They implemented the ability to expose the number of rows in tables, addressing a specific issue reported in the repository. The user also addressed issues related to scraping parts data, ensuring data accuracy. Additionally, they added a basic integration test to validate the functionality of the exporter.
exportersimple-serverprometheus-exporterexportsclickhouse
siderolabs/talos
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:266 reviews, 122 commits, 127 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily contributed to the machine service within the Talos Linux project. Their work involved implementing a type filter for the list API and CLI, which included defining a new enum `ListRequest_Type` and modifying the machine's protobuf definition file to include this functionality. They also made updates to the project's dependencies, specifically the protobuf, grpc-go, and prototool, to keep the project current.
containersmuslcontainerdlinux-distributiongrpc
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