Nikolay Sokolov
Director Software Engineering at Saama
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Sokolov is a Director of Software Engineering based in San Jose with over 20 years of experience designing and scaling mission-critical SaaS platforms focused on resilience, low latency, and cost-efficiency. He specializes at the intersection of Reliability and Security, leading Strategic SRE initiatives that cut MTTR and remove toil through automation like IaC and ephemeral environments. Nikolay has driven DevSecOps and container security programs that reduced critical production vulnerabilities by 90% and hardened Kubernetes (EKS) deployments using integrated tooling across CI/CD pipelines. He has a strong track record of technical leadership—mentoring distributed teams and steering multi-year architectural roadmaps including EKS migrations and environment compartmentalization into AWS silos. An early contributor to OpenStack Nova client improvements and monitoring integrations for Ganglia, he brings hands-on open-source experience that complements his enterprise engineering leadership. His background blends deep systems-level engineering with pragmatic security and operational strategy that directly enable business growth.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University named after R.Y. Alekseev (NSTU)
English, Russian
Github Skills (17)
monitoring10
python10
apidoc10
mysql10
user-authentication10
authentication10
java10
javas10
openstack10
api10
ganglia10
scripting9
testing9
caching9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/griffin
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Mirror of Apache griffin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 22 PRs, 93 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikolay primarily focused on back-end development, addressing database compatibility issues and enhancing caching mechanisms. They made changes to the `Rule` entity, ensuring compatibility with MySQL by quoting reserved words. The user also fixed caching of incomplete results within the `HiveMetaStoreService`, improving performance and data integrity. Additionally, they addressed job time zone issues and implemented a single call to fetch all tables, optimizing data loading and UI responsiveness.
griffinjavaapache
ganglia/gmond_python_modules
Sep 2011 - Sep 2011
Repository of user-contributed Gmond Python DSO metric modules
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Nikolay contributed to the development of a Python-based monitoring module for OpenStack Nova, specifically focused on collecting compute metrics for the Ganglia monitoring system. Their work involved creating the core logic to gather instance counts and service status information using the Nova API. The user also implemented a custom service graph and setup scripts to streamline the deployment and integration of the module into a Ganglia environment, including modifications to configuration files. Additionally, the user addressed configuration issues and code related to flag usage.
metricsdsopython
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