Andrii Skomorokhov
Senior Backend Engineer (R&D) at Protected by Mediaocean
Spain
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Top SchoolAndrii Skomorokhov is a Senior Backend Engineer (R&D) based in Spain with 10 years of experience building database-focused monitoring and management systems. He spent six years at Percona enhancing Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), contributing backend query-analytics schemas and full-stack dashboard tooling that improved observability and visualization for database performance. Currently at Mediaocean, he applies R&D rigor to backend systems while blending his earlier work as a Python engineer and web developer to deliver pragmatic, production-ready solutions. His academic background spans cryptography, international information relations, and a PhD in AI, giving him a rare mix of security-conscious, analytical, and research-driven perspectives. An active open-source contributor, he has hands-on contributions to widely used Percona projects—adding export/cleanup scripts and metric support that streamline Grafana/PMM workflows. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex monitoring needs into maintainable schemas and automation that accelerate DBA and managed-services operations.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at West Ukrainian National UniversitySpecialist, Computer systems and networks, Cryptography, Specialist, Computer systems and networks, Cryptography at Ternopil Academy of National EconomyMaster's degree, International Information Relations, Master's degree, International Information Relations at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (16)
query-tuning10
database-tuning10
monitoring10
collections10
query-optimization10
go10
data-monitoring10
grafana10
data-collection10
python10
metric10
database-optimization10
protocol-buffers10
database-design9
json9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
percona/pmm
May 2016 - Aug 2021
Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:84 reviews, 91 commits, 118 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrii primarily contributed to the development of the query analytics features within the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) project. Their work involved creating and extending schemas for query summary reports, and modifying data structures to include metrics and visualizations like sparklines. The code changes indicate a focus on enhancing the project's database monitoring and performance analysis capabilities, specifically involving database query data collection and representation. The user's contributions are centered around modifications of the `qan.go` proto definitions to support metrics and related analysis.
perconadatabase-monitoringobservabilitypmmdatabase
percona/grafana-dashboards
Feb 2017 - Apr 2020
PMM dashboards for database monitoring
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 127 commits, 92 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrii contributed to the Percona PMM dashboards, primarily focusing on the `misc/export-dash.py` and `misc/cleanup-dash.py` scripts. They improved dashboard exporting by adding a newline at the end of JSON files and introduced scripts for cleaning up and modifying Grafana dashboards. They also added functionality to the PMM Grafana apps and updated and maintained multiple dashboards.
mysqldatabase-monitoringdashboardspmmdatabase
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