Summary
Valery Kalashnikov is a Software Architect and tech lead with over a decade of hands-on experience designing cloud-native distributed systems and leading teams up to 15 engineers. He specializes in Golang, Python, Java, Kubernetes, and Self-Sovereign Identity, applying DevOps/SRE practices to build reliable, self-healing platforms and pragmatic AI integrations (GPT, Claude, LLaMA, Gemini) that deliver measurable automation and UX improvements. At T‑Systems he drove OpenTelemetry adoption to cut incident resolution from days to hours and earned committer rights in Eclipse XFSC for Kubernetes and Go contributions. Comfortable in multicultural remote teams across five countries, he pairs engineering leadership and people development with a former engineering manager’s discipline in roadmaps and predictable delivery. Valery is motivated by meaningful, impact-driven projects and favors practical solutions over hype.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master, Master's degree, Computer Science, Master at University of Aerospace Instrumentation
Russian, English, German