Arthur Petukhovsky
Software Engineer at Neon, Inc.
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolArthur Petukhovsky is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing to Neon, a high-profile open-source project that implements serverless Postgres by separating storage and compute. He specializes in backend systems and reliability engineering, having strengthened Neon’s testing infrastructure and implemented rigorous tests for acceptor restarts under load to improve consistency and robustness. Prior roles include building a chat-based crypto wallet in Go and teaching computer science at the Higher School of Economics, reflecting both practical product experience and an ability to explain complex topics. Based in the Netherlands, he brings production-grade distributed systems know-how and a focus on operational correctness. Notably, his contributions emphasize testing hard-to-reproduce failure modes and tooling enhancements that make large-scale Postgres deployments safer.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Higher School of Economics
Russian, English
Github Skills (9)
databases10
postgresql10
py10
python10
database10
testing10
serverless9
rust9
database-administration8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
neondatabase/neon
Sep 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:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:718 reviews, 116 commits, 296 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Arthur primarily contributed to the Neon serverless Postgres database project by adding and improving tests related to the database's core functionality. Their work involved implementing test cases for acceptor restarts under load, which involved balance transfers and log writes. They also enhanced the testing infrastructure by adding support for the `--sync-safekeepers` command, showcasing a focus on database consistency and robustness under various operational conditions.
neonrustserverlessautoscalingoffer
petuhovskiy/dist-comp-hw
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 10 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
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