Summary
Aliaksei Artamonau is a senior software engineer in San Francisco with 16 years of experience building distributed databases, compilers, and query languages. He has deep expertise in consensus protocols, durable metadata systems, and practical trade-offs between consistency and availability—work that includes designing a Raft-based metadata layer and quorum fail-over strategies for Couchbase. Comfortable across Erlang, Haskell, Python, Go and C, he combines functional-programming rigor with systems-level pragmatism to ship robust infrastructure at scale. At Couchbase he led several cross-cutting features from topology-aware services and fast shard-mapping to lease-based cluster leadership and delta-recovery optimizations. Now at CrowdStrike he applies language and compiler skills to query systems, bringing uncommon cross-domain fluency in both PL theory and production distributed systems. Colleagues describe him as the engineer who surfaces subtle protocol-level fixes—often tracing hard customer issues back to kernel, runtime, or third-party engine bugs.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, Russian, Russian, Spanish