Timur Yusupov is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building distributed database reliability at YugaByte from his base in Nizhny Novgorod. He combines deep backend and DevOps skills with hands-on experience in fault-injection testing, having implemented a Jepsen framework and failure nemeses for YugaByteDB to validate ACID guarantees. His career includes multiple team-lead roles and senior Java development, reflecting strong technical leadership and delivery across startups and enterprise projects. With a master's in mathematics, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to complex distributed-systems problems and test infrastructure. An often-overlooked strength is his practical expertise in setting up and automating test environments end-to-end, bridging development, operations, and verification.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Mathematics, Master, Mathematics at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)
A framework for distributed systems verification, with fault injection
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 21 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Timur implemented a Jepsen framework for YugaByte DB, demonstrating proficiency in distributed systems verification. Their contributions include setting up, starting, and stopping YugaByteDB instances, along with wiping data. They also implemented various nemeses to simulate failures for testing purposes and integrated a testing framework to validate single-row inserts and multi-key ACID tests. Furthermore, the user worked on setting up and configuring the test environment.
YugabyteDB third-party dependencies (work in progress moving this here from http://bit.ly/yb3partydir)
Contributions:69 releases, 8 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 9 months
dependenciesyugabytedbpartyin-progressdatabase
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