Jorres Tarasov
DevOps Engineer at Nebius
Belgrade, Central Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolJorres Tarasov is a DevOps engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across startups and major cloud providers. He has a track record of owning end-to-end infrastructure—singlehandedly launching a Kubernetes-based platform, databases and observability stacks at a medical startup—and now works on public cloud services for AI workloads at Nebius. Early training at Yandex instilled high engineering standards, and he has contributed backend fixes and Kubernetes-focused configuration improvements to the open-source YDB distributed SQL project. A Linux and Neovim enthusiast, he blends deep command-line expertise and Lua plugin development with practical security and CI/CD practices. Based in Belgrade, he pairs academic training from ITMO with pragmatic production experience delivering scalable, secure systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at ITMO University
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
databases10
distributed-systems10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
database10
yaml10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
python8
sql8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ydb-platform/ydb
Oct 2022 - Apr 2025
YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 24 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jorres primarily contributed to the `ydb` repository by implementing and fixing backend functionalities related to YAML configuration parsing, HTTP proxy behavior, and the configuration tools. Their work included addressing bugs in DNS resolution within the HTTP proxy and enhancing the `ydb_configure` tool with features for Kubernetes environments. Further contributions encompassed adding various features for configuration and management, and addressing backward compatibility issues.
dbmsdistributed-sql-databaseydbdatabaseconsistency
Jorres/stress-relief
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 days
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