Azat Khuzhin
Principal Software Engineer at ClickHouse
Netherlands
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Top SchoolAzat Khuzhin is a Principal Software Engineer based in the Netherlands with 15 years of experience building and optimizing large-scale distributed data systems. He has deep C/C++ and Linux expertise, specializing in debugging, profiling, and performance tuning for columnar OLAP databases like ClickHouse, which he has developed and supported in production at Semrush and now as a ClickHouse contributor. Azat has architected systems operating at petabyte scale and trillions of documents, pairing low-level kernel and storage knowledge with pragmatic tooling in Python, RocksDB, and containerized environments. He is an active open source enthusiast with a passion for the Linux kernel and high-performance database internals, often finding performance gains through micro-optimizations and system-level insights. His background blends hands-on troubleshooting with long-term architectural thinking, making him effective at both crisis response and sustainable platform design.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Special / Engineer, Special / Engineer at Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical UniversityGithub contributions (2)
azat-archive/akLib
Aug 2010 - Jan 2011
Contributions:35 commits in 6 months
azat-archive/qtcreator
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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