Leonid Ryzhyk
CTO, Co-Founder at Feldera
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonid Ryzhyk is a CTO and co-founder based in Sunnyvale with 11 years of experience turning advanced systems research into production-ready software. He spent seven years as a senior researcher at VMware after research roles at Samsung, Carnegie Mellon, University of Toronto and NICTA, bringing deep expertise in systems and applied research to product engineering. His academic background includes a PhD in Computer Science (UNSW) and an MS in Applied Mathematics, which underpin a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to architecture and performance. As a founder he combines hands-on technical leadership with the ability to translate research prototypes into scalable cloud and edge solutions. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges the gap between theoretical ideas and practical implementations, often revealing elegant simplifications that reduce operational complexity. Based in Silicon Valley, he is well positioned to lead research-informed product engineering at the intersection of academia and industry.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic InstituteUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (180)
json-parser10
twitch10
programming-language10
memory-efficient10
python10
olap10
apache-arrow10
declarative10
streaming10
sql-query10
javascript10
datalog10
computation10
big-data10
data-analytics10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ryzhyk/cocoon
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:222 commits, 190 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
ryzhyk/nerpa
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:182 commits, 5 PRs, 83 pushes in 7 months
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