Summary
Yakov Shiryaev is a network engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, operating and automating large multi-vendor data center and ISP networks, including hyper-scale and EVPN/VxLAN environments. He combines deep routing and switching expertise (BGP, TCP/IP, load balancing, security) with practical SRE experience managing hundreds of Linux servers and L4 load balancers. Yakov has a strong track record of improving resilience and maintainability—leading redesigns, building automation and documentation, and implementing configuration and authentication hardening across networks. Comfortable coding in Python and Bash, he automates routine tasks while contributing to larger systems development. Based in Amsterdam, he brings a pragmatic blend of field troubleshooting and long-term architecture thinking, often surfacing operational improvements that reduce toil.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Tula University (TIEI)
English, Russian, Dutch