Vladimir Leskov is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Amsterdam with a decade of experience building scalable infrastructure and reliability services at big tech companies including Google, Databricks, and Yandex. He specializes in distributed systems, database backup and restoration, and control-plane reliability—work that includes designing account-graph synchronization at Google and improving Jobs & Workflows reliability at Databricks. At Yandex and as a contributor to the widely used wal-g project, he engineered parallel page-level incremental Postgres backups, disaster-recovery tools, and added new compression and WAL delta improvements to production backup tooling. Now at Nebius, he continues to focus on robust, production-grade services, pairing deep systems-level expertise with a knack for practical algorithm design that reduces data-loss risk.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, 4.84 / 5.0, Bachelor, Computer Science, 4.84 / 5.0 at Ural Federal University
Archival and Restoration for databases in the Cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:87 commits, 124 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Vladimir primarily focused on refactoring the project's core components, specifically the `Bundle` and related classes, enhancing the database archival and restoration features of the project. They introduced support for new compression methods, including LZMA and ZSTD, improving the backup process. Furthermore, the user implemented and integrated integration tests to verify the complete backup and restoration cycles. The user also made improvements to the WAL delta backup implementation.
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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Vladimir Leskov - Senior Software Development Engineer at Nebius