Arseny Sher
Developer at Neon, Inc.
Yerevan, Armenia
Summary
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Top SchoolArseny Sher is a developer with 11 years of experience specializing in database internals, Postgres, Rust, transactions, and distributed consensus. Currently at Neon, he contributes to Neon’s serverless Postgres by improving storage, replication, and WAL processing to ensure data consistency and autoscaling. Prior roles at Postgres Professional and ISPRAS cemented his low-level systems expertise and practical approach to complex backend problems. Based in Yerevan, he combines solid academic roots from MSU with a pragmatic, common-sense engineering style that surfaces in both production systems and open-source commits. Notably, his work on Neon touches core database functionality—demonstrating comfort with critical, stateful system design rather than just APIs or orchestration.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
физико-математический профиль, физико-математический профиль at СУНЦ МГУLomonosov Moscow State University
French, Russian, English
Github Skills (8)
databases10
rust10
postgresql10
wal10
replication10
database10
system-programming9
database-design9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
neondatabase/neon
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:1037 reviews, 172 commits, 480 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Arseny made several commits focused on the back-end development aspects of the Neon database project, including improvements to the storage layer and the implementation of new API features. A significant portion of their work involved modifying the database's core functionality, specifically around replication, WAL processing, and ensuring data consistency. Their contributions touched multiple aspects of the project, demonstrating their familiarity with database internals and low-level systems design.
neonrustserverlessautoscalingoffer
arssher/pgtpch
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:52 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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