Igor Serebryany
The Main Guy at CSheet
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Serebryany is a seasoned full-stack and DevOps engineer with 19 years of experience building reliable infrastructure and improving developer workflows, now based in Berkeley. He has architected production systems from embedded sensors to distributed service discovery (contributions to Airbnb’s widely used SmartStack components like nerve and synapse) and led engineering at companies focused on climate and electrification. Igor combines hands-on coding and operations with a product lens, always hunting for the biggest organizational bottleneck that technology and process can solve. He prefers mission-driven projects, especially those addressing environmental and climate challenges, and currently runs an open-source, self-host-friendly AI-assisted DnD character sheet while advising philanthropic ventures. Known for pragmatic tooling, solid testing, and clear documentation, he brings both deep systems knowledge and the ability to translate technical work into impact.
19 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of Chicago
Russian
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Github Skills (22)
back-end-development10
configuration-management10
zookeeper10
ruby10
go10
service-discovery10
haproxy10
devops10
testing9
unit-testing9
system-design9
automation9
unit-test9
automations9
database6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/nerve
Jan 2013 - Aug 2015
A service registration daemon that performs health checks; companion to airbnb/synapse
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:120 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Igor primarily focused on developing a service registration daemon called Nerve, which interacts with Zookeeper. They implemented core functionality for service registration, including base classes and Zookeeper connection management. Their contributions involve the creation of ephemeral nodes and machine/service registration logic. The user refactored code, added logging, and addressed configuration aspects.
airbnbdaemonhealthregistrationservice-registration
airbnb/synapse
Nov 2012 - Feb 2017
A transparent service discovery framework for connecting an SOA
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:190 commits, 22 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Igor primarily worked on the `synapse` project, which is a service discovery framework. Their contributions involved setting up and refactoring core components, including configuration files, service watchers, and the HAProxy integration. They also implemented leader election logic, refactored the Zookeeper watcher and integrated with HAProxy using its stats socket. Additionally, the user made significant improvements to logging and added tests.
soatransparentservice-discoverydiscovery
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