Kliment Serafimov
Founder at MetaHyper
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKliment Serafimov is a founder and software engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure. An MIT MEng alumnus who transitioned from research at MIT and stints at Microsoft Research, AI Foundation, Neon and Multi, he blends academic rigor with product-focused engineering. He contributed to Neon, a notable serverless Postgres project, improving proxy/core backend components, SNI handling, and observability via Sentry integrations. At MetaHyper he leads early-stage technical strategy, applying his backend systems expertise to scalable, autoscaling architectures. Comfortable bridging research and production, he brings a track record of refactoring, bug-hardening, and pragmatic design choices that accelerate shipping reliable databases and infrastructure. His international schooling and rapid movement from research to multiple startups hint at a curious, adaptable operator who thrives at the intersection of systems research and entrepreneurship.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPSU "Maximilian Berlitz"International baccaloriate Gymnasium, International baccaloriate Gymnasium at UWC Adriatic - Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico O.N.L.U.S.PSU "Yahya Kemal" - Avtokomanda
Macedonian, English
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Github Skills (12)
error-handling10
databases10
proxy10
rust10
postgresql10
database10
pytest9
testing9
sentry8
serverless8
authentication7
user-authentication7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
neondatabase/neon
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 61 commits, 19 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kliment primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Neon database, focusing on improving the proxy and core components. They addressed bugs, specifically typos and inconsistencies, within the codebase. Key contributions include adding features to handle SNI data, including validation and error handling, as well as refactoring code for improved clarity and maintainability. Furthermore, the user integrated sentry to the proxy, pageserver, and safekeeper processes.
neonrustserverlessautoscalingoffer
asolarlez/sketch-backend
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:305 commits, 6 PRs, 196 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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