Vitalii Gridnev is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading development of high-throughput distributed SQL systems at YDB/Yandex. He combines deep C++ and Python expertise with gRPC, Protobuf and async patterns to design client SDKs, query execution features and production-grade testing/chaos pipelines that improved YDB performance on real workloads. As a team lead he shipped features like Sequences and StreamIndexLookup that reduced shard overload and boosted index streaming bandwidth in production clusters. Formerly a core upstream contributor to OpenStack Sahara, he brings strong open-source collaboration and release-management experience to cloud-managed database products. Based in Colombia, he pairs hands-on implementation (including client-side balancing and SQLAlchemy adapters) with mentoring and systems-level performance engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky
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