Summary
Anton Nekipelov is a senior software engineer and solution architect with 11 years of experience building data-intensive, cloud-native applications from startup to hyperscale. Based in Amsterdam, he has led and mentored engineering teams at AWS—where he was a tech lead and founding engineer for CloudShell and Cloud9—and now focuses on data platforms at Databricks. He combines full-stack expertise (TypeScript frontends, serverless backends, infrastructure-as-code) with strong operational, security and compliance practices across SOC/PCI/FedRAMP/HIPAA environments. Anton’s background spans mission-critical streaming and batch systems, microservices, and pragmatic test-driven delivery, shaped by earlier work in high-traffic media and adtech products. He’s equally comfortable setting strategy and rolling up his sleeves to ship resilient systems, and brings a rare mix of hands-on engineering, people leadership, and applied product thinking. An unexpected thread through his career is sustained focus on right-tool-for-the-job pragmatism—choosing simpler, maintainable solutions at scale.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Engineering Economics Project Management, Master's degree Engineering Economics Project Management at Samara State Technical University
Dutch Language, Dutch Language at University of Amsterdam
Russian, English, Dutch