Denis Rystsov
Staff Engineer at vectorized.io
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDenis Rystsov is a Staff Engineer in Seattle with 15 years building high-performance, distributed systems and mission-critical services. He currently helps lead core engineering at Vectorized, developing Redpanda—a C++ Kafka-compatible, JVM-free streaming platform focused on data safety, replication and transactions. His background includes driving large-scale consistency testing and chaos engineering for Cosmos DB at Microsoft and maintaining Amazon’s customer-facing checkout systems, giving him deep expertise in reliability under production pressure. Early work at Yandex and Grid Dynamics sharpened his skills in distributed storage, NoSQL and big data workflows, grounded in an M.Sc. in applied mathematics and computer science. Colleagues would note his blend of systems-level rigor and practical pragmatism: he prefers one reliable binary over complex stacks and brings a knack for simplifying operational complexity.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), applied mathematics, computer science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), applied mathematics, computer science at Saint Petersburg State University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (103)
realtime10
zookeeper10
redpanda10
seastar10
stream-processing10
serverless10
microservices10
cpp10
cloud-native10
streaming10
mongoose10
storage-engine10
scale10
api10
sql10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rystsov/warp9
Jun 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:83 commits, 1 push in 2 years 3 months
rystsov/faster-paxos-commit
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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