Elena Grahovac
Member Of Technical Staff at Databricks
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolElena Grahovac is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, developer-centric tools and database systems, now shaping platform-level work at Databricks. She has led teams end-to-end—from hiring and strategy to hands-on coding—and recently drove Neon's Workflow team to simplify environment branching and ship integrations like Vercel and GitHub Actions. A Go enthusiast and DevOps advocate, Elena pairs strong SRE instincts with backend and database expertise, contributing substantial fixes and features to FerretDB, an open-source MongoDB alternative built on PostgreSQL. Her background includes automating developer lifecycle and CI/CD at scale (GetYourGuide, N26) and launching production-ready microservices and templates early in her career. Known for fostering high-velocity, ownership-driven teams, she also speaks and writes about open source and engineering best practices. Based in Berlin, she combines product-minded leadership with continued hands-on work in Go and database internals.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
English, Russian, Serbian, German, French
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Github Skills (12)
go10
mongodb10
database-design10
mongodb-database10
testing10
postgresql9
error-handling9
data-structures8
data-structure8
json-schema8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
FerretDB/FerretDB
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A truly Open Source MongoDB alternative
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:2845 reviews, 81 commits, 300 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Elena's contributions focused on enhancing the FerretDB project by improving logging for router/proxy errors, fixing issues related to proxy response logs, and addressing the correct handling of `find`, `count`, and `delete` operations when collections do not exist. The user also worked on adding support for the `$all` operator and addressing document validation issues and other critical tasks such as supporting arrays in `tjson`, fixing the `whatsmyuri` command, and implementing `MsgCount`. These efforts demonstrate a strong emphasis on database functionality and performance improvements.
golangmongomongodb-databasenodejsdatabase
rumyantseva/go-zeroservice
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
A "zero" web service written in Go
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
golangweb-servicezero
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