Igor Beliakov
Senior Software Engineer at GridGain
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Beliakov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of hands-on experience building distributed systems, databases, and cloud-native platforms using Java, C#, and modern JS/TS stacks. He has deep expertise in Apache Ignite/GridGain, contributing patches to the core project (JDBC Thin Driver fixes, cluster activation events, and stale connection handling) while driving production-ready features at GridGain. Igor has designed and delivered scalable, event-driven microservices and billing platforms using Kafka, Kubernetes, and Spring Boot, and has a strong background in performance tuning for high-throughput workloads. Comfortable across backend, data persistence, and frontend integrations, he also brings experience modernizing legacy systems (CORBA, WCF) and implementing real-time processing pipelines. A master's graduate from ITMO, he pairs rigorous academic training with practical open-source contributions that improve resilience in distributed databases.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Systems and Technology, Master's degree, Information Systems and Technology at Saint-Petersburg State University Information Technologies, Mechanic and Optics (University ITMO)
English, German
Github Skills (15)
javas10
distributed-systems10
jdbc10
java10
caching9
in-memory9
database9
testing9
disk-cache9
object-cache9
web-cache9
memory-cache9
big-data9
databases9
sql8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ignite
Mar 2019 - May 2021
Apache Ignite
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 5 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Igor contributed to the Apache Ignite project by addressing issues related to the JDBC Thin Driver, specifically randomizing the first server address for connection. They also added cluster activation events, fixing related bugs. Furthermore, the user implemented the closing of stale outgoing connections. The contributions primarily involved modifications to core modules and test files within the Apache Ignite codebase.
data-management-platformin-memory-databasedistributed-sql-databaseapache-ignitenetwork-client
ibelyakov/nano-textbox
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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