Yuri Lipnesh
Senior Software Engineer at Aqua Security
Wayland, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolYuri Lipnesh is a Senior Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience specializing in Linux kernel and user-space programming, eBPF, and cloud-native security. Currently a technical lead and scrum master at Aqua Security, he designs and optimizes high-performance, scalable protections for cloud infrastructure while partnering directly with customers to tailor solutions. His career spans technical leadership roles at CA Technologies and Datadog, showing a strong track record of guiding teams through complex system and security challenges. Trained originally in theoretical physics, Yuri brings a rigorous, research-minded approach to low-level systems engineering and threat mitigation. Known for bridging deep kernel expertise with practical product delivery, he often translates obscure kernel behaviors into measurable reliability and performance improvements. Based in Wayland, Massachusetts, he combines hands-on coding with cross-functional collaboration to deliver production-ready security tooling.
1 year of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced UNIX Programming, Advanced UNIX Programming at SELA, IsraelMaster's degree theoretical physics, Master's degree theoretical physics at Latvijas UniversitateIntroduction to Embedded Linux, Introduction to Embedded Linux at Hi-Tech College, Herzliya IsraelC/C++ programming Programming C/C++ objects oriented, C/C++ programming Programming C/C++ objects oriented at sivan Comuter Center, Tel-Aviv
English, Russian, Hebrew, Latvian
Github Skills (14)
distributed-tracing10
golang10
datadog10
monitoring10
opentelemetry10
pmm10
logging10
observability10
agent10
go10
apm-agent10
stackdriver10
otel10
profiling10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Contributions:264 reviews, 39 PRs, 203 pushes in 7 months
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
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