Summary
Ivan Zerin is a Data Architect with 15+ years in software engineering and over five years leading big data and modern data stack initiatives (DBT, Snowflake, Redshift, AWS Glue). He combines a Java backend pedigree—Spring, Grails, Hibernate—with hands-on DWH design and implementation experience from companies like Klarna, Scentbird and RevenueBase. As a tech lead and speaker at HighLoad Conf, he brings both architectural vision and developer-focused practices such as TDD, refactoring and CI to delivery. Certified in agile methods and holder of a PhD-level background in fast symbol processing, he’s comfortable translating research-grade thinking into production-grade pipelines. Notably, he has a track record of building data platforms from scratch and advising organisations on pragmatic, scalable migrations to cloud-native analytics.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer and Information Sciences Fast Symbol Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer and Information Sciences Fast Symbol Processing at Southwest State University (former Kursk State Technical University)
English, Russian