Ilya Shakhat
Software Engineer at Firebolt
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Shakhat is a software engineer based in Munich with over two decades of hands-on experience and 13 years in professional roles building cloud and observability systems. He has designed and implemented production-grade infrastructure solutions at Huawei’s Munich Research Center—ranging from eBPF-based service topology reconstruction and scalable log analysis to real-time risk proxies—and holds several patents in observability and fault injection. At Mirantis he led engineering efforts around OpenStack performance, created widely used tools like Shaker and Stackalytics, and contributed backend improvements to the openstack-archive/stackalytics project to remove legacy dependencies and integrate OpenStackID. Now at Firebolt, he focuses on high-performance data infrastructure, combining deep systems knowledge with a pragmatic belief that technology should solve real human problems, not exist for its own sake. Colleagues describe him as a disciplined engineer who blends research rigor with production-savvy delivery and a track record of translating academic collaborations into deployable AIOps features.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Post-graduate, Computer Science, Post-graduate at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky
Russian, English, German
Github Skills (7)
python10
refactoring9
openstack9
gerrit8
database-management7
api6
apidoc6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/stackalytics
Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
MOVED: now at https://opendev.org/x/stackalytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily focused on refactoring and removing functionalities related to CI votes within the stackalytics project. This involved removing deprecated database dependencies, addressing performance issues with comment querying on Gerrit, and removing unused code related to CI votes. Additionally, the user introduced a new module to work with the OpenStackID service, enabling email-to-user profile mapping and retrieval of user affiliations. These changes indicate a focus on improving the project's maintainability and integrating with external services for user management.
opendev
shakhat/act
Feb 2016 - Jun 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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