Yury Kotov is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native and high-load systems, currently leading backend and DevOps efforts at httpLAB. He blends deep expertise in Elixir and Ruby with production experience in Go, C++ and large-scale AWS infrastructures, having driven migrations from monoliths to service-oriented architectures and Kubernetes. Yury has designed orchestration for OpenStack, implemented Event Sourcing/CQRS systems, and integrated Vault, Terraform and distributed tracing into secure, auditable platforms. His background spans IoT, telecom-grade monitoring, and game AI, reflecting a rare mix of low-level performance optimization and modern distributed systems design. Based in Rostov-on-Don with a master's in Applied Mathematics, he is an ambitious OSS-minded engineer who repeatedly turns complex infrastructure requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Applied Mathematics at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
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