Val Tikhonov
Chief Technology Officer at Airteam Aerial Intelligence
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolVal Tikhonov is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Berlin with 12 years of hands-on software engineering experience and over 5 years in executive technology roles. He has built engineering departments from scratch, consolidated multi-cloud infrastructure into a single optimized architecture, and shepherded an ML model flow flagship product to release. Val combines deep backend and distributed-systems expertise—from Erlang high-load servers and custom DB layers to Java/Scala microservices and Kafka-driven pipelines—with strong operational instincts in DevOps and Kubernetes migrations. He has a track record of introducing testing and delivery practices (E2E, CI) that reduce bottlenecks and improve reliability across teams. An active open-source contributor, his work includes refactoring a MongoDB driver for Erlang, reflecting a willingness to dive into low-level protocol and performance details. Pragmatic and hands-on, he translates business needs into engineering roadmaps while still contributing code and technical direction.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
specialist's degree Automated systems of data processing and management, specialist's degree Automated systems of data processing and management at MSU Admiral Nevelskoy
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
erlang10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
kubernetes-helm6
sbt6
sbt-assembly6
google-artifact-registry6
scala6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
comtihon/mongodb-erlang
May 2014 - Jun 2022
MongoDB driver for Erlang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 292 commits, 75 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Val's commits focus on refactoring and improving the MongoDB driver for Erlang. They addressed deprecation warnings, updated the code formatting, and modified the code to improve the functionality. The changes mainly involved the `src/mongo.erl` and `src/mongo_protocol.erl` files, which define driver methods and the protocol for the database connection.
mongodb-drivererlangmongodb
SeaBattle/seagull
Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:57 commits, 4 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year 8 months
ansibleconfigurationconfiguration-serversubmodule
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