Sergii Smyrnov
Senior Engineering Manager In ClickHouse Team at Aiven
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSergii Smyrnov is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 13+ years building data-driven, user-focused engineering teams and shipping production-grade systems across telecom, eCommerce, health, and education. He blends hands-on backend expertise (Go, Python, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP) with strong people leadership—co-founding high-performance search teams and leading platform modernization, authentication, observability, and event-streaming initiatives. Known for debugging both systems and processes, he consistently drives measurable improvements in delivery rate, code quality, and team health while mentoring engineers into T-shaped contributors. Notably, he founded an internal AI Coding Guild to accelerate practical AI tool adoption and has repeatedly modernized legacy stacks into scalable microservice and streaming architectures.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Radio and Television, Master’s Degree Radio and Television at Kharkiv National University of Radio ElectronicsKherson College of Journalism, Business and Law
Russian, Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (83)
python10
django10
mqtt10
api10
home-automation10
debugging10
iot10
filter10
asyncio10
raspberry-pi10
rest9
security9
profiling9
disposable9
sd-card9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
smirnoffs/quepid-es-proxy
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Elasticsearch proxy for Quepid.
Contributions:6 reviews, 11 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 2 months
elasticsearchproxy
smirnoffs/smirnoffs
Nov 2021 - May 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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