Ivan Blinkov
Principal Product Manager, DATA&AI Infrastructure at Yandex
Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Top SchoolIvan Blinkov is a seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience building and productizing data storage and processing platforms, currently serving as Principal Product Manager for Data & AI Infrastructure at Yandex. He has held senior product and program leadership roles across Yandex, ClickHouse and YDB, guiding open-source and enterprise database projects from core implementation to deployment. A hands-on contributor to the YDB distributed SQL database, he has modified core recovery and deployment behavior and added SQL/CLI features, blending low-level distributed-systems engineering with product strategy. Based in Chiang Mai, he combines academic training in business informatics and e-business with startup CTO experience, making him equally comfortable with developer-facing technical tradeoffs and go-to-market decisions.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master, E-Business, Master, E-Business at Higher School of Economics
Russian, English
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Github Skills (25)
c-language10
databases10
distributed-systems10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
database10
bash9
tornado9
sql9
bash-shell9
cpp9
shell9
script9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ydb-platform/ydb
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1246 reviews, 2 commits, 641 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily focused on modifying and adding to the core distributed database functionality. Their contributions include refactoring code related to FDR (Fast Data Recovery) within the hyperscan library, adding new features like support for a single-node instance with a real disk drive in the deployment scripts, and introducing support for the `SELECT version()` SQL command. They also made changes to the protobuf files and CLI commands.
dbmsdistributed-sql-databaseydbdatabaseconsistency
ydb-platform/ydb-presentations
May 2023 - Apr 2025
YDB public talks, slides and recordings
Contributions:3 reviews, 36 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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