Daniil Zakhlystov
Senior Software Engineer at Nebius
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDaniil Zakhlystov is a senior software engineer based in Amsterdam with seven years of experience building backend systems and database tooling. He has progressed from co-founding a startup to engineering roles at Yandex and Nebius, where he now focuses on scalable cloud services. An active open-source contributor, Daniil made substantive improvements to wal-g’s archival and restoration internals—implementing reverse delta unpacking and tar interpreter logic—demonstrating deep expertise in database backup and recovery. He also brings mentorship experience from Google Summer of Code with the PostgreSQL community, blending practical production engineering with a strong academic foundation in mathematics and computer science. Colleagues know him for tackling low-level storage problems that reliably move into robust cloud-native features.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Ural State University named after A.M.GorkyHigh School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science, High School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science at Specialized Educational and Scientific Center of Ural State University
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Github Skills (10)
golang10
databases10
go10
postgresql10
archiving10
back-end-development10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
cloud-computing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wal-g/wal-g
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
Archival and Restoration for databases in the Cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:12 releases, 644 reviews, 169 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniil focused on implementing and refactoring core database archival and restoration features for the wal-g project, a cloud-based database backup and recovery tool. Their work involved significant changes to the internal workings of the pagefile handling, including the implementation of reverse delta unpacking, creation of increment files, and the writing of pages from deltas. They also contributed to the internal tar interpreter logic. Furthermore, their contributions included adding support for environment variables and refactoring the code related to the reverse delta unpack functionality.
golangsqlservermysqlrestorationdatabases
usernamedt/libpq_compression
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:175 pushes, 48 branches in 2 years
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