Gleb Novikov
Member Of Technical Staff (Neon, Control Plane) at Databricks
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGleb Novikov is a pragmatic distributed-systems engineer with nine years of experience building resilient, production-grade infrastructure for startups and large tech firms. Currently a Member of Technical Staff on Neon’s control plane at Databricks, he led tenant migration tooling and automated import pipelines that onboarded thousands of Postgres databases and kept clusters available during hardware incidents. His hands-on work spans Golang, Rust, C++, Python and orchestration with k8s, and he pairs deep database internals knowledge with pragmatic operational experience as a repeated incident commander. At earlier startups he built scalable CRDT-based collaboration engines, websocket routing, and custom storage services, and at Yandex and IPONWEB he improved performance-sensitive backend systems and data pipelines. An active contributor to the open Neon project, he implemented fast-import enhancements and attachment-service refactors that reveal a strong grasp of database tooling and migration complexity. He combines product-focused delivery with a knack for cross-team coordination and mentoring through hiring and on-call leadership.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master in International Management, Master in International Management at Higher School of Economics
Russian, English, French
Github Skills (9)
databases10
rust10
database-administration10
postgresql10
database10
apidoc7
api7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
neondatabase/neon
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:63 reviews, 24 PRs, 68 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Gleb's contributions primarily focus on modifying and extending the Neon database system, particularly related to the fast import functionality and its interaction with the underlying database infrastructure. They modified the fast import tool to work with the `neondb` database instead of `postgres`, added features for using different connection strings, and added a new interactive mode. The user also made changes to the attachment service API, refactoring and renaming various parts of the codebase, and included tests for the fast import functionality. This indicates a strong understanding of database internals and related tooling.
neonrustserverlessautoscalingoffer
NanoBjorn/ClickHouse
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
ClickHouse is a free analytic DBMS for big data.
Contributions:141 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 5 months
data-analyticsanalyticsdbmsmysqlanalytic
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