Summary
Arseniy Kouzmenkov is a software engineer at Arista Networks with eight years of hands-on experience building networking and systems software focused on routing, OS-level performance, and distributed systems. A University of Alberta honors graduate, he has applied his academic background to production work at Arista and during a Google SRE internship where he built Kubernetes admission controllers and interoperability plugins in Go. He brings low-level C/C++ optimization experience alongside cloud-native tooling knowledge, having improved hardware representations, asynchronous CLIs, and CI-driven test coverage. Comfortable leading small teams and teaching, he has managed TA teams and designed course materials, reflecting strong mentorship and communication skills uncommon for an engineer of his tenure. Based in Vancouver, he blends protocol-level rigor with pragmatic engineering—optimizing both hardware resource use and developer workflows.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing Science Honors, 3.7, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing Science Honors, 3.7 at University of Alberta
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The International School of Choueifat, Dubai