Summary
Stanislav Vitko is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of hands-on experience and 15+ years in engineering leadership focused on Site Reliability and infrastructure automation. He has led teams and built distributed systems across finance, e-commerce, security, and blockchain, most recently shaping reliability for custody systems with strict US compliance at PolySign and now at Ripple. Stanislav blends deep technical expertise in cloud-native platforms, CI/CD, and self-healing infrastructure with proven people management—growing and mentoring teams across multiple continents. His projects include large-scale orchestration platforms that drove release cadence from monthly to weekly and Kubernetes migrations that cut resource footprints by 60%. He consistently emphasizes reliability, security, and scalability while reducing user-impacting incidents to a low single-digit yearly average. Academically grounded in physics, math, and computer science from Saint Petersburg State University, he brings analytical rigor to pragmatic operational engineering.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
postgraduate student Physics Math Computer Science, postgraduate student Physics Math Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State University
Russian, English