Summary
Slava Kuznetsov is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager with 12 years of hands-on experience building and leading teams that keep large-scale services resilient and operable. Currently managing SRE efforts at Booking.com, he previously led configuration management teams and scaled ops functions as Head of IT Operations at Ecwid, where he built a strong ops organization and implemented a one-button upgrade. His background spans low-level systems work—Linux/FreeBSD administration, monitoring, logging, and configuration management—to strategic leadership and process automation. Known for turning operational complexity into repeatable, auditable workflows, he combines deep technical fluency with pragmatic team-building. Based in Haarlem, Netherlands, he blends engineering rigor with a quiet product-focus and the patience forged by parenting (proud daddy lvl 2). His early career in founding and running an outsourcing company gives him a rare perspective on running profitable, service-oriented teams end-to-end.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Mathematics, Engineer, Mathematics at Ulyanovsk State Technical University
English, Russian