Summary
Konstantin Sobolev is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building scalable APIs, distributed systems, and developer-facing platforms across companies like Snowflake, Observe, Sumo Logic, Box, and LinkedIn. He specializes in backend architecture, parser/DSL work, metadata and metrics systems, and has a track record of turning monoliths into maintainable service ecosystems and designing compilers and query parsers (notably OPAL-related parser work). Konstantin blends deep systems thinking with practical delivery—shipping load-balancing proxies, composable microservice frameworks, and billing/metadata services—and has a history of leading cross-language projects (PHP/Scala/Java/Scala bindings). Based in California with an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, he favors reducing entropy in complex systems and contributes code on GitHub under eprst.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
English, Russian