Alexey Serba
Principal Software Engineer, Search at Zillow
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAlexey Serba is a Principal Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 14 years building high-performance, fault-tolerant search and distributed systems. He currently drives performance, reliability, and large-scale data pipelines for Zillow/Trulia’s property search that handles over a billion queries daily. Deep expertise in information retrieval—from crawling and indexing to query processing and ranking—complements a strong track record of tuning Java server software and debugging complex production issues. Previously he was a core contributor at Lucidworks, shaping Fusion’s Solr integration, streaming APIs, cluster coordination, and deployment frameworks used by hundreds of enterprise customers. Alexey combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic engineering: he’s implemented document-level security, observability agents, and upgrade-testing frameworks that reduced risk in large deployments. His background in computer science and long-term focus on search make him a go-to engineer for mission-critical retrieval and indexing challenges.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science Math, Master Computer Science Math at Saint Petersburg State University
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Github Skills (53)
httpd10
lucene10
ssl10
jsp10
jersey10
leiningen10
information-retrieval10
solr10
weblogic10
java10
servlet10
libevent10
osgi10
http-client10
http-server10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
serba/jetty.project
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
Eclipse Jetty® - Web Container & Clients - supports HTTP/2, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/1.0, websocket, servlets, and more
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
ponylanghttpdeclipsehttp-serverhttp3
serba/logstash-output-solr
May 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 14 tags in 7 months
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