Yevgeniy Firsov
Co-Founder & Chief Architect at Tigris Data Inc
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYevgeniy Firsov is a seasoned systems engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of deep experience building high-performance storage and distributed database systems. As Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Tigris Data and former senior engineer at Uber, SanDisk, Percona and others, he has led design and implementation of large-scale MySQL-backed services, RAFT replication libraries, and flash-optimized key-value engines that moved petabytes reliably in production. He combines low-level proficiency in Linux, concurrency and performance tuning with practical productization—shipping Storagetapper at Uber and maintaining its open-source incarnation. Notably, his work has driven multi-datacenter change-data-capture, transactional distributed KV functionality, and substantial MongoDB and Ceph performance gains on flash. Based in Mountain View and trained in applied mathematics, he blends rigorous algorithmic thinking with hands-on systems engineering to solve real-world storage bottlenecks.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Applied Mathematics, Master Applied Mathematics at Altai State Technical University
Russian
Github Skills (155)
transactional-database10
opensearch10
rdma10
fuse10
vimscript10
statusline10
blob-storage10
sink10
backblaze10
backup10
gossip10
elasticsearch10
backend10
streaming10
foundationdb10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
efirs/hdfs
Feb 2018 - Nov 2021
A native go client for HDFS
Contributions:16 pushes, 8 branches, 7 tags in 3 years 9 months
golanggo-clientnative-gohdfs
tigrisdata/geesefs
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 32 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 month
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