Summary
Stanislav Zakrevskii is a hands-on technology leader and Lead Staff Engineer based in Melton, UK, with 10+ years of experience building distributed, fault-tolerant systems and improving engineering practices. He has driven reliability and scalability at companies from Amazon and TransferWise to startups, repeatedly reducing latency, cutting costs, and hardening systems for high-load scenarios. Comfortable both as an IC and a manager, he has led teams, set up CI/CD and agile processes, and hired and mentored engineers while owning architecture and operational excellence. His recent focus is on highly available Erlang-based solutions for the betting industry, combined with AWS, Kafka and OpenSearch to handle burst traffic. Notably, he blends low-level systems thinking with product-minded delivery—having rebuilt ETL/reporting platforms and documentation/meta-control systems that materially reduced staleness and costs. He holds a master’s in IT Management and brings a pragmatic mix of sysadmin roots and cloud-native engineering.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
School N292
Master's Degree IT Management, Master's Degree IT Management at Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts
English, Russian