Nikita Zavyalov
Site Reliability Engineer at trivago
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolNikita Zavyalov is a Site Reliability Engineer and founder with 10 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and developer-facing tools across GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and GitOps. He has repeatedly returned to trivago to drive SRE for data platforms and streaming, and recently moved from Red Hat where he focused on operability, SLO management, and SRE tooling at scale. As a co-founder of Scula he blends product instincts and content creation with hands-on platform development, demonstrating a strong founder-engineer mindset. His background ranges from leading cloud migrations and multi-cloud architectures to shipping automation in Go, Rust, and Python, and he frequently pairs on-call ownership with proactive CI/CD and GitOps improvements. Based in Düsseldorf, he mentors aspiring backend engineers and has a track record of translating complex operational needs into pragmatic, reusable tooling. Colleagues describe him as someone who thinks like a product manager when building infrastructure, prioritizing user-facing reliability as much as low-level engineering.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at State University — Higher School of Economics
English, Russian, German
Stackoverflow
96reputation
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Github Skills (62)
continuous-deployment10
tooling10
kubernetes10
docker10
cd10
e2e-test10
kustomize10
ksonnet10
continuous-delivery10
cicd10
argo10
argocd10
gitops10
helm10
jsonnet10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Gaikanomer9/rasa-docker-bot
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
Gaikanomer9/mentor-chatbot
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 5 pushes in 6 months
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