Sergey Bykov
Senior Staff Escalation Engineer
Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSergey Bykov is a Senior Staff Escalation Engineer based in Hoofddorp with six years of focused experience at Nutanix and a prior background in deep-support roles at Microsoft and Parallels. He specializes in diagnosing and resolving complex production issues across virtualization and storage stacks, steadily progressing through senior technical and reliability roles. An active contributor to the virtio-win project, Sergey has made hands-on fixes to Windows paravirtualized drivers—improving buffer management, network stability, and memory handling—which underscores his low-level systems expertise. He brings a blend of customer-facing escalation skills and backend debugging craftsmanship, comfortable tracing problems from registry and driver settings up to distributed platform behavior. Sergey holds a bachelor’s in Applied Mathematics from Novosibirsk State University, a foundation that informs his methodical, data-driven approach to incident resolution.
6 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics at Новосибирский Государственный Университет (НГУ) / Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
English
Github Skills (10)
c1710
windows-driver10
kvm10
c-language10
c1110
cprogramming-language10
qemu10
virtio10
driver9
virtualization8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Windows paravirtualized drivers for QEMU\KVM
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Sergey primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the stability of the virtio-win drivers for Windows. Their contributions include addressing issues related to buffer management, network connectivity, and page faults within the NetKVM and balloon drivers. The user's work involved modifying code related to memory allocation, RSS settings, and registry parameter handling. They also fixed a warning related to static tools tests.
hyper-vc-plus-plusvirtualizationvirtio-winguest
sb-ntnx/kvm-guest-drivers-windows
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Windows paravirtualized
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
vdivmswindowsesxikvm
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