Artem Yakimenko
Engineering Director, SRE at Culture Amp
Wollongong City Council, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolArtem Yakimenko is an Engineering Director specialising in SRE with 13 years of experience building reliable, cost-efficient distributed systems and leading remote teams across startups and large tech firms. He currently leads SRE at Culture Amp, driving multi-million dollar budget stewardship and delivering >$400k in annual AWS savings while implementing ARM migrations that cut compute costs and improved performance. Known for turning reliability work into measurable business outcomes, he has owned SOC2 Type 2 controls, vendor reviews, and financial strategies for observability spend. Previously at Google and Mr Yum he scaled global infrastructure, slashed customer-facing outages, and stabilized major open-source cloud libraries used by millions. He also advises startups and mentors over 100 engineers, offering free sessions for early-career talent, and moonlights as a portfolio Expert for an NYC venture firm. Collected experience across ops, security and developer tooling gives him an uncommon blend of hands-on engineering, financial rigor, and people-first leadership.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Environmental Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Environmental Science and Engineering at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
English, Russian
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Github Skills (200)
bots10
automation10
cloud-platform10
client-library10
api10
cloud-services10
vagrant10
apt10
virtualbox10
fog10
api-client10
ruby10
menu10
virtualization10
rollout10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Temikus/mac-packaging
May 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
Temikus/do-ddns
Jun 2015 - Oct 2020
Openwrt DDNS script using Digital Ocean domains API
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 5 years 4 months
apioceanopenwrtddnsdigital-ocean
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