Summary
Sergey Zaporozhtsev is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems and developer tooling, currently shaping core features at Neo4j from England. His career spans storage systems and virtualization at EMC, CI/CD and release management for Atlassian’s JIRA Service Desk, and senior engineering roles at Adaptavist, evidencing strong hands-on expertise in distributed systems and release engineering. A pragmatist who “solves problems,” he brings deep Unix, Vim and Go fluency and a background in compiler construction and high-level optimizations that surfaces in clean, performant code. Sergey combines product-focused engineering with operational rigor, having moved between low-level storage internals and large-scale service delivery. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical leader who prefers practical, elegant solutions over overengineering.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Qualified Specialist, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Qualified Specialist, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
English, Russian