Aliaksandr Valialkin

Co-Founder

Cracow, Małopolskie, Poland22 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder and CTO of VictoriaMetrics
  • Expert in building scalable observability solutions
  • Led successful backend transitions to Go
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in AdTech and observability solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsGoScalability

Other Skills

Open SourcePerformance TuningMonitoringLoggingData CachingAlgorithmsCryptographyMultithreadingSoftware DesignInformation SecurityComputer ScienceOOP

About

See my open source projects at https://github.com/valyala . VictoriaMetrics founder and core developer

Experience

Victoriametrics

Founder

Jan 2018Present · 8 yrs 3 mos · Ukraine

  • Building the best observability solutions for metrics and logs
Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsScalabilityOpen Source

Vertamedia

Software Engineer

Aug 2015Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Successfully led building cost-effective ad serving infrastructure for high load (up to 300K qps per server).
  • Successfully led backend language transition from PHP+node.js to Go. This significantly reduced development, maintenance and operational costs.
  • Helped building fast and powerful ad analytics on top of ClickHouse.
  • Helped improving monitoring and logging infrastructure on top of Prometheus, ClickHouse and Grafana.
Software EngineeringGoPerformance TuningMonitoringLogging

Nextadnet

CTO

Sep 2014Jun 2015 · 9 mos

  • Proposed and implemented new revenue sharing scheme with guaranteed gross profit margin (previous schema sometimes could lead to negative gross profit).
  • Reduced hosting costs per request by an order of magnitude.
  • Improved backend software stability from multiple crashes per hour to zero crashes/freezes and zero memory leaks per month.
  • Significantly optimized stats'​ processing speed.
  • Added detailed click stats, so every click could be filtered or grouped by a dozen of attributes on the fly.
  • Added missing ad serving features (filters, limits, smart requests' throttling).
  • Added detailed event logging and real-time backend state observability.
Software EngineeringScalabilityPerformance Tuning

Prom.ua

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Nov 2012Aug 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Kiev

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Education

Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics

Master's degree — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2000Jan 2005

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