Summary
Philipp Kovalev is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of focused experience building high-performance web platforms and cloud services. He has a proven track record at Yandex and Yandex Cloud delivering resource-efficient, scalable systems—one project reduced web browser cloud compute consumption by 70%—and is currently driving engineering work at Nebius. Comfortable across the full stack, Philipp blends Node.js, Go, C++ bindings and embedded development experience, and has shipped long-lived in-house tools and frameworks still used in production. He has led teams up to 11 people, founded a vibrant hackerspace where he also designed embedded access systems, and favors practical, measurable impact over titles. Based in Simferopol with ties to the Netherlands, he describes himself as an interfaces developer and often pairs systems thinking (Petri nets for impact prediction) with hands-on coding.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State University of Waterway Communications
Russian, English