Andrey Marchenko is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, resilient systems from startups to large platforms, currently working on CI visibility for Ruby at Datadog. He has a strong track record of diagnosing and fixing production performance and memory issues—most notably uncovering a GC problem at Shopify that improved 99th-percentile latency by 30%. Andrey designs and delivers cross-team features and architectures, from leading Orders-related integrations at Shopify to driving a dynamic-pricing rollout at SHARE NOW that boosted utilization and profits. He brings practical polyglot experience in Ruby, Elixir, Java, and distributed pipelines, having rewritten a critical ingestion pipeline in Elixir to cut incidents from ~20/year to one. Comfortable both leading small teams and contributing deep technical fixes, he also introduced ADRs and helped organizations adopt Kubernetes and GraphQL, showing a habit of improving team processes as well as code. Based in Potsdam, Germany, he combines pragmatic engineering with an eye for systemic improvements that save months of effort.
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