Vlad Kluev is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience building reliable, high-performance backend systems and ML-driven pipelines. He currently contributes to Sentry’s backend and DevOps, focusing on error tracking, performance monitoring, and data-query reliability for a widely used open-source platform. Previously a founding engineer at Woven and a senior backend engineer at Big Health, he combines startup agility with production-grade engineering discipline. His background includes machine learning roles at AdRoll and internships at Microsoft and Facebook, giving him deep experience in large-scale data infrastructure and applied ML. Known for optimizing for speed and robustness, Vlad often surfaces subtle reliability fixes—like tenant-aware tests and Snuba adjustments—that improve observability at scale. He holds a BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and brings a hardware-to-ML breadth that helps bridge systems and data teams.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BASc, Computer Engineering, BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:227 reviews, 11 commits, 75 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Vlad primarily contributed to back-end development, focusing on error tracking and performance monitoring aspects of the Sentry platform. Their work included fixing logging issues, adjusting rate limits, and adding tenant IDs to tests. They also made modifications to tests related to Snuba, which suggests they are involved in the data querying and analysis aspects of the platform. These contributions demonstrate a focus on reliability and performance.
Protobuf schema, and service stub libraries repo for internal sentry services
Contributions:1 release, 75 reviews, 20 PRs in 6 months
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Vlad Kluev - Senior Software Engineer at Sentry (sentry.io)