Vadim Skipin
Principal Software Engineer at ClickHouse
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolVadim Skipin is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-scale systems and storage platforms, now based in Berlin and currently at ClickHouse. He has led engineering efforts at AWS (Aurora and Redshift Zero-ETL) and Yandex, where he launched foundational projects like Network Block Store/Network File Store and a real-time stream processing framework powering search at massive scale. Vadim combines deep systems and full-stack optimization expertise (C++, Go, Python) with hands-on DevOps work—evidenced by ARM64 performance and build-system improvements contributed to the widely used CatBoost library. Known for reducing latency and scaling reliable infrastructure, he brings both architectural vision and the pragmatic skill to ship and tune distributed services. An endurance athlete as well (Sub10 Ironman), he pairs long-term stamina with relentless focus on performance and reliability.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Math, Applied Math at Saint Petersburg State University
English
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Github Skills (12)
infiniband10
arm10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
gradient-boosting9
linux8
accelerated-computing8
devops8
gpu8
gpgpu8
python7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
catboost/catboost
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
A fast, scalable, high performance Gradient Boosting on Decision Trees library, used for ranking, classification, regression and other machine learning tasks for Python, R, Java, C++. Supports computation on CPU and GPU.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vadim's contributions primarily focused on integrating and optimizing the CatBoost library for ARM64 architecture. They worked on adapting the library's build system, specifically the `ya.make` files, for ARM64 environments. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies related to Infiniband drivers, likely to support high-performance networking, and addressed spinlock performance on ARM64. These changes suggest a focus on optimizing the library's performance and compatibility across different hardware platforms.
kagglexgboostpythondata-mininglightgbm
vadimskipin/ClickHouse
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 19 branches in 1 month
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