Summary
Vitali Deatlov is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently shaping Kubernetes-based deployment infrastructure at MongoDB. He combines deep operational expertise across databases (MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB), messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and cloud-native tooling (ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Kubernetes) with a pragmatic engineering style honed since 2007. Vitali has migrated legacy deployment stacks, built Kubernetes operators from scratch, and productionized continuous deployment workflows for hundreds of clusters and hundreds of thousands of nodes. He is remote-friendly, straight-to-the-point, and prized as a force multiplier who mentors peers and leads architecture reviews. Comfortable across many languages (Perl, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java, NodeJS) and fronts, he still keeps a systems-first view—preferring elegant, resilient solutions over clever but brittle hacks. Based in Amsterdam, he pairs a long history of full-stack problem solving with a knack for simplifying operational complexity at scale.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
software engineer, Programming, Databases, software engineer, Programming, Databases at Transnistria State University
English, Russian, German, Romanian