Yury Chaikou
Staff Software Engineer at ServiceNow
Renton, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYury Chaikou is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building and debugging large-scale, highly compliant cloud and database systems, currently focused on performance and reliability of ServiceNow's core MariaDB platform. He brings deep expertise in C++, C#, .NET, Java, Python and low-level debugging (WinDBG) from long tenures at Microsoft where he designed and operated Azure-wide failure analysis and automated debugging services that saved thousands of man-years and improved VM availability. Yury specializes in investigating elusive crashes, hangs, data corruption and replica synchronization issues across Linux and macOS environments, combining systems thinking with hands-on root-cause analysis. Trained as a physicist (Master’s with excellence), he pairs rigorous analytical instincts with pragmatic engineering to turn hard-to-reproduce failures into actionable fixes. He’s comfortable navigating strict security and compliance constraints to deliver scalable, auditable diagnostics that enable teams to triage and fix production defects they otherwise couldn’t access.
2 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics and Electronics, Graduated with excellence., Master's degree, Physics and Electronics, Graduated with excellence. at Belarusian State UniversityPhysics/Mathemathics, Physics/Mathemathics at Lyceum of Belarussian State University
English, Russian, Russian
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Github Skills (18)
amazon-web-services10
relational-databases10
mysql9
mysql-server9
json9
rdbms9
sql9
database9
sql-server8
galera8
geographical-information-system8
mariadb8
vector-database7
nearest-neighbor-search7
storage-engine7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
spachev/mysqlpcap
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 months
MariaDB/server
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.
Contributions:1 review, 1 comment in 1 day
licensedsql-servermysqlsqlmariadb-server
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