Nikolay Sivko
Chief Executive Officer at Coroot
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Sivko is a technology leader and CEO with 14 years of experience building observability and production-first tooling from Montevideo. He co-founded okmeter.io and now leads Coroot, an open-source APM alternative that combines metrics, logs, traces and eBPF-powered insights to make troubleshooting in production easier for every developer. Hands-on across backend, DevOps and frontend, he’s contributed core features like DB cluster handling, Prometheus caching and Postgres integrations while also improving system-level tooling in gopsutil. His background in chemical physics and long tenure running IT operations give him a methodical, system-oriented approach to reliability engineering and product design.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
observability10
postgresql10
linux10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
freebsd9
admin9
monitoring9
database-administration9
databases9
database9
disk-io8
disk8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
coroot/coroot
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Coroot is an open-source APM & Observability tool, a DataDog and NewRelic alternative. Metrics, logs, traces, continuous profiling, and SLO-based alerting, supercharged with predefined dashboards and inspections.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:76 releases, 102 reviews, 91 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nikolay focused on enhancing the backend infrastructure of the Coroot APM & Observability tool. They added functionality for handling DB clusters, including adding new types and logic for Kubernetes metadata loading and Postgres metrics integration. Further, they implemented prometheus cache, improving the data retrieval process and overall performance. Furthermore, they also worked on improving core charts, contributing to the product's frontend.
observabilitygrafanaprometheusdashboardmonitoring
shirou/gopsutil
Aug 2014 - Dec 2015
psutil for golang
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 8 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Nikolay primarily contributed to improving the `gopsutil` library, a Go-based library for retrieving system information. Their work focused on fixing bugs, particularly related to network and disk I/O statistics on various operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD). They also implemented new features such as process username retrieval and unix disk usage calculations, enhancing the library's functionality. The user demonstrates proficiency in Go and a deep understanding of system-level programming across different platforms.
golangpsutilsystem-informationgo
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