Oleksiy Kovyrin

Principal Software Engineer at Elastic

Oleksiy Kovyrin is a seasoned software developer, web operations engineer, and manager with a rich background spanning over two decades in engineering large-scale web projects. He advocates for straightforward and dependable solutions grounded in established technologies, emphasizing operational efficiency.

With a Master's degree in Computer Science from Kremenchuk State Polytechnical University, Oleksiy has held prominent roles in various organizations, showcasing his proficiency in architecture and development of expansive web infrastructures, team leadership in Technical Operations, SRE, and DevOps domains, along with a relentless focus on system reliability and streamlined incident management.

Currently serving as a Principal Software Engineer at Elastic, Oleksiy has previously filled key positions such as Tech Lead for App Search at Elastic, Regional Lead for Swiftype SRE at Elastic, Head of Technical Operations at Swiftype, Principal Engineer at Swiftype, CTO at Eligible, Director of Technical Operations at Eligible, amongst others.

His extensive professional journey includes roles like Senior Technical Operations Engineer at LivingSocial, Operations Lead at Scribd, Scalability Expert at Scribd, MySQL Performance Expert at Percona, Senior Systems Administrator / Core Developer at Galt Networks and New Age Opt-In, System Administrator at S-Net, among various other crucial positions in the IT landscape.

Oleksiy Kovyrin is actively seeking career opportunities as a Principal Engineer, Tech Lead, or Software Architect for high-load web projects, leveraging his profound expertise and skills in web infrastructure, team management, operations, and overall technical leadership.

Highlights

Oct 10 · twitter

The only people who believe in secret plots and conspiracy theories are the ones that never had to manage a decently large project. I’d honestly respect the government so much if they were able to pull something like that off.

Oct 8 · twitter

Oh yeah! So excited to do this year in Zig. Last year was in rust and the year before that was in go.