Fedor Korotkiy
VP Of Engineering at Recraft
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFedor Korotkiy is a VP of Engineering with 15 years of experience designing and operating distributed systems and low-level software, currently leading engineering at Recraft from St Albans, UK. He built and maintained high-performance infrastructure at Yandex—operating their internal big-data platform and adding observability via metrics, tracing, and profiling—and earlier developed HFT systems and backtesting tools. Fedor combines hands-on systems programming with DevOps expertise, contributing to the CatBoost project by hardening build systems, integrating TCMalloc, and resolving platform deadlocks to improve performance and compatibility. His background in data analysis from MIPT and a track record of solving system-level issues make him comfortable navigating both algorithmic and operational complexity.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Data Analysis, Bachelor of Science (BS), Data Analysis at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English
Github Skills (13)
devops10
build-automation10
cicd10
dockers9
optimization9
optimisation9
docker9
memory-management9
c-language8
git8
cprogramming-language8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
catboost/catboost
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
A fast, scalable, high performance Gradient Boosting on Decision Trees library, used for ranking, classification, regression and other machine learning tasks for Python, R, Java, C++. Supports computation on CPU and GPU.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:214 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Fedor primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of build systems and continuous integration processes within the CatBoost project. Their work involved updating and managing external dependencies, specifically yolint, and configuring build configurations. They also addressed system-level issues, as seen in the fixes for mismatched new/delete pairs in socket utilities, and contributed to the integration of TCMalloc, a memory allocator, demonstrating knowledge of system optimization and performance tuning within the project's build infrastructure. Further contributions included enabling fork support within tcmalloc and resolving deadlocks in the musl build process, showcasing a focus on build stability and system compatibility.
kagglexgboostpythondata-mininglightgbm
slon/shad-go
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Golang programming course
Contributions:12 reviews, 34 PRs, 190 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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