Aliaksandr Valialkin

Founder and CTO at @VictoriaMetrics

Cracow, Małopolskie, Poland

About

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

Experience

  • Founder at VictoriaMetrics
    Jan 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

    Building the best observability solutions for metrics and logs

  • Software Engineer at VertaMedia
    Aug 2015 - Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 5 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.

  • CTO at NextAdNet
    Sep 2014 - Jun 2015 · 10 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 Engineer at Prom.ua
    Nov 2012 - Aug 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • software engineer at self-employed
    Oct 2010 - Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo