Summary
Sergey Zelenov is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building products across startups and large enterprises, now based in Berlin and currently at MongoDB while founding two ventures. He has shipped projects in front-end, back-end and cloud-native stacks—ranging from SmartTV streaming at Yandex to retail advertising platforms acquired by Schwarz Group—using Go, Python, Typescript, React, NodeJS, Scala and Kubernetes. Sergey blends hands-on engineering with founder-level product instincts, having co-founded RECOVA and launched consumer projects like InkStory and Before You Go. He also has a strong background in developer education and automation, building an automated homework and PR-review system for javascript.info. Pragmatic and polyglot, he often moves between prototyping and productionizing systems, with a knack for turning experimental concepts into scalable services.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation
English, Russian