Artem Krylysov
Senior Staff Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArtem Krylysov is a Senior Staff Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building reliable, high-performance backend systems and leading engineering teams at Datadog. He progressed from senior engineer to staff and now senior staff roles, blending hands-on systems programming with technical leadership across observability and scale. An active open-source contributor, Artem built core functionality for pogreb, an embedded Go key-value store, improving performance, resilience, and storage semantics—an indication of deep systems and storage expertise beyond typical service development. He holds an engineer’s degree in Computer Software Engineering from NSTU and brings an entrepreneurial mindset from founding an early software venture in Novosibirsk. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design, performance optimizations, and quietly fixing tricky reliability issues at scale.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (18)
key-value-store10
go10
data-structure9
firefox-addon9
data-structures9
filesystem8
algorithms8
testing7
concurrency7
internet-explorer6
safari-extension6
google-chrome-extension6
google-chrome6
unicode6
rune6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
akrylysov/pogreb
Jan 2018 - May 2021
Embedded key-value store for read-heavy workloads written in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 60 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Artem primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `pogreb` key-value store, implementing the underlying storage and retrieval mechanisms. They added source code, fixed file handle leaks, improved performance by optimizing bucket unmarshalling and freelist operations, and addressed data corruption issues. The contributions include adding options for sync writes and fixing recovery issues. The user also refactored parts of the code for better design, as well as adding documentation updates.
golangworkloadsrustlsm-treekey-value-store
DataDog/rust-rocksdb
Jun 2021 - Jul 2023
rust wrapper for rocksdb
Contributions:4 PRs, 27 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years
rustrust-wrapperrocksdb
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