Seva Brekelov
Staff Software Engineer at MongoDB
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSeva Brekelov is a Staff Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and real-time features at companies like Google, Nike, Miro, and MongoDB. He combines hands-on implementation skills in Java, TypeScript, Go, and Kotlin with 5+ years of tech leadership, driving cross-team initiatives, architecture reviews, and developer experience improvements. Known for shipping high-impact integrations quickly (e.g., a Draw.io integration delivered in two months and multiple WebRTC-based huddle/video features), he balances rapid delivery with technical due diligence and observability improvements. Seva is passionate about mentoring and knowledge sharing—publishing articles, videos, and books via his EngineerReadings channel—and often leads hiring and interview processes for senior and staff roles. He also bridges product and ML concerns, having led Agentic AI features and integrations with major cloud/ML providers. A former QA automation engineer turned architect, he brings a pragmatic, test-driven mindset to large-scale systems and team effectiveness.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Applied Mathematics, Master’s Degree Applied Mathematics at Saint Petersburg State University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (46)
e2e-testing10
puppeteer10
javascript10
selenium10
electron10
testing10
chromium10
webkit10
browser-automation10
automation10
firefox10
api10
sdk10
chrome10
blockchain10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
volekerb/testing-lectures
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
Software testing lectures for ITMO
Contributions:1 review, 51 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 3 months
testingsoftware-testingitmo
JUGRuGroupOnline/TechTrain2020
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Задачи на TechTrain2020
Contributions:48 PRs, 50 pushes, 2 comments in 9 days
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