Petr Orlov
Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPetr Orlov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with over 10 years building backend and distributed systems across C++, Go, and Python. He has driven platform and infrastructure work at companies like Reddit and Klarna, focusing on model-serving platforms, CLI tools, and scalable microservices. His background spans embedded systems and high‑load decentralized processing, giving him a rare blend of low-level optimization and cloud-native engineering. Comfortable collaborating with product and frontend teams, he also participates in on-call rotations and hiring processes. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic system design that balances performance, reliability, and operational needs.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Automatic Computer Control Systems, Engineer’s Degree, Automatic Computer Control Systems at Saint-Petersburg State University Information Technologies, Mechanic and Optics (University ITMO)
Русский, English, German
Github Skills (66)
getstream10
chat-sdk10
getstream-io10
vundle9
chat9
upstream9
docker-compose8
yaml8
browser8
formatter8
aix8
reddit8
javascript8
markdown8
cpp8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zerozez/tarantool-docker
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
zerozez/CMake
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
cppcmakeopen-platformbuild-systemcross-platform
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