Yakov Zhdanov
Apache Ignite Committer And PMC Member at Apache Ignite™
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
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Top SchoolYakov Zhdanov is an experienced software engineer and engineering leader with 15 years in software development and 11 years focused on distributed systems and in-memory data platforms. As an Apache Ignite committer and PMC member since 2014, he helped steer the project through incubation and contributed performance optimizations and documentation improvements to one of Apache’s most active, widely downloaded projects. He led R&D and engineering teams at GridGain, owning platform design, releases, and customer-facing technical coordination as VP of Engineering. Yakov pairs deep hands-on expertise in multi-threaded Java, networking, and high-performance computing with proven people and project management skills. Based in St. Petersburg, he blends a systems-level understanding of grid computing and distributed databases with frequent public speaking and community leadership.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Software development, computer science, Engineer, Software development, computer science at Altai State Technical UniversityMaster, Management, Master, Management at Altai Academy of Economics and Law (AAEL)
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Github Skills (17)
caching10
big-data10
distributed-systems10
data-management10
java10
apache-ignite10
javas10
disk-cache10
object-cache10
memory-cache10
web-cache10
sql7
osgi7
security-testing6
owasp6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ignite
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Apache Ignite
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 16 PRs, 58 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Yakov primarily focused on javadoc enhancements and performance optimizations within the Apache Ignite codebase. Their contributions involved fixing documentation, adding `toString()` methods, and refining internal components related to discovery and cache management. The user's work also touched upon core service implementations, particularly in the context of IgniteServices.
data-management-platformin-memory-databasedistributed-sql-databaseapache-ignitenetwork-client
yzhdanov/ignite
Nov 2015 - Jun 2017
Mirror of Apache Ignite
Contributions:17 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 6 months
apache-igniteapachebig-dataignitejava
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