Sergey Soldatov
Principal Software Engineer at Cloudera
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSergey Soldatov is a Principal Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 12+ years building and scaling data systems across enterprises and open-source ecosystems. He currently drives Cloudera’s Operational Database efforts and serves as an Apache Phoenix PMC committer, contributing bug fixes and core improvements to high-profile projects like Apache Phoenix and HBase. Sergey combines hands-on backend and database engineering with team-building and process initiatives, having led platform and data-warehouse efforts at Sberbank and architecture work at WANdisco and Hortonworks. His track record spans low-level storage and RPC fixes to Hive integration and query optimization, reflecting a focus on reliability and performance at scale. Colleagues rely on him to hire, mentor, and operationalize complex distributed systems while keeping delivery fast-paced and pragmatic. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Saint Petersburg State University and often surfaces non-obvious stability wins by improving corner-case behaviors in critical, production databases.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (17)
hbase10
debug10
databases10
database-administration10
java10
javas10
phoenix-liveview10
sql10
phoenix-framework10
apache-phoenix10
database10
hadoop9
hive8
sys8
system-design8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/phoenix
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Apache Phoenix
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 153 commits, 7 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sergey primarily contributed to the Apache Phoenix project by addressing several bugs and implementing improvements related to the database's core functionalities. Their work involved modifications to existing code within the core and hive modules, including fixing issues in bulk loading, local index handling, and query optimization. The user also introduced features like shaded client creation and resolved problems within the Phoenix Storage Handler for the Hive integration, indicating a strong focus on improving the system's reliability and performance.
sqlapache-phoenixelixirapachebig-data
apache/hbase
Jun 2016 - May 2022
Apache HBase
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 42 commits, 9 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Sergey primarily contributes to Apache HBase, focusing on bug fixes and code improvements. Their commits address issues related to RPC client behavior, data handling (like `KEEP_DELETED_CELLS`), and internal functionality such as `RegionMover` and handling exceptions in the HBase shell. The work reflects a focus on the core functionality of the database and its internal operations.
apache-hbaseapachedatabasejavahbase
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