Irving Popovetsky
Sr. Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Veeam Software
Portland, Oregon, United States
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RockstarIrving Popovetsky is a seasoned Sr. Staff Site Reliability Engineer and engineering leader with 25+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale, cloud-native distributed systems, currently at Veeam and previously a formative technical leader at Honeycomb and Chef. He combines hands-on engineering in Python, Go, Kubernetes, and AWS with deep customer-facing experience, having built and scaled post-sales technical functions and Customer Architecture from early startup stages through enterprise adoption. Irving is known for making observability practical—shaping telemetry, SLOs, and dynamic sampling practices that help engineers actually debug production systems rather than just collect metrics. He has repeatedly translated complex customer needs into product and roadmap impact, driving retention and expansion without relying on heroic firefighting. A prolific speaker, writer, and open-source contributor, he brings both technical depth and people-first team building to roles that require architect-level thinking plus operational empathy. Based in Portland, he seeks principal engineering or senior management roles that prioritize sustainable engineering culture and tangible customer outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
russian (semi-fluent), mandarin chinese (basic & survival phrases), french (basic & survival phrases)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
proxy10
metadata10
ubuntu10
automation10
duckdb10
linter10
inspec10
vagrant10
bigquery10
redhat10
audit10
policies10
solaris10
package-manager10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
irvingpop/mode_wle_signer
Apr 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 2 months
irvingpop/digital-beer-menu
Jan 2013 - Jan 2021
A digital beer menu display and management system
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 8 years 1 month
management-systemmenu
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