Igor Zolotarev
Software Engineer at Tarantool
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Zolotarev is a software engineer based in Berlin with 6+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering high-load distributed systems and cluster orchestration. He has driven architecture and implementation for large-scale projects—most notably building a 3 TB, 500k rps solution for Megafon, integrating Raft into Tarantool Cartridge, and authoring a Prometheus-compatible metrics package with latency quantile collection. Igor blends deep academic training in applied mathematics with practical systems work, having taught probability theory, Python, and highload architecture while mentoring customers and speaking at conferences. His background spans networking firmware, supply-chain optimization, and production-grade Go and C/C++ system components, showing a rare mix of protocol-level detail and system-wide design. Colleagues value him for improving failover stability and for turning complex distributed algorithms into operational cluster managers and federation designs.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics, 4.97, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics, 4.97 at Московский авиационный институт (национальный исследовательский университет)Postgraduate Degree (incomplete), Applied Mathematics, Postgraduate Degree (incomplete), Applied Mathematics at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 5.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 5.0 at Московский Государственный Институт Электронной Техники (Технический Университет) (МИЭТ)
Russian, English, Georgian, German
Github Skills (59)
msgpack10
in-memory10
appserver10
ram10
graphite10
cartridge10
lua10
mmap10
disk10
command-line-utility10
cluster-manager10
tarantool10
database10
kubernetes9
cli9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tarantool/metrics
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Metric collection library for Tarantool
Contributions:17 releases, 133 reviews, 142 commits in 2 years 8 months
metricsgraphitetarantool
tarantool/cartridge-metrics-role
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 20 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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