Artjoms Iškovs
Senior Principal Engineer at EDB
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolArtjoms Iškovs is a senior principal engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building data-driven backend systems, modern data stacks and serverless OLAP APIs. As co-founder of Splitgraph (acquired by EDB) he led backend, infrastructure and DevOps while also owning customer-facing, marketing and finance responsibilities—bridging product, ops and engineering. He now drives architecture and delivery at EDB, bringing hands-on quant-dev and data engineering experience from firms like Man AHL and Morgan Stanley. Comfortable switching between IC and management roles, he’s shipped production systems in Python and Java and has a knack for turning research ideas into practical tools. Outside work he’s created several widely noticed essays and projects (including Hacker News front-page posts and a niche speedrun optimiser), showing a curiosity for systems, performance and unconventional problem-solving.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of CambridgeRiga Ostwald Secondary SchoolHigh School, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Russian, High School, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Russian at Cambridge Tutors College
Russian, Latvian, English, French
Github Skills (119)
timeseries-database10
postgresql10
python10
http10
serverless10
pandas10
api10
sql10
rust10
arctic10
developer-tools10
database10
cli10
java10
analytical10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
splitgraph/seafowl
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Analytical database for data-driven Web applications 🪶
Contributions:303 reviews, 384 commits, 106 PRs in 6 months
data-drivenapiweb-applicationsparquetrust
splitgraph/sgr
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
sgr (command line client for Splitgraph) and the splitgraph Python library
Contributions:33 releases, 69 reviews, 1910 commits in 4 years 6 months
data-version-controlpython-librarypythondatasql
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