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Leonid Vasilyev

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New York, United States

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  • Cloud Botanist AI
    Co-Founder
    Cloud Botanist AI
    Aug 2026 - Current (2 months)
    Middleware layer to handle payments for cloud infrastructure.
  • Career Break
    Personal goal pursuit
    Career Break
    Mar 2026 - Current (7 months)
  • Datadog
    Engineering Manager
    Datadog
    May 2021 - Mar 2026 (4 years 11 months)
    Leading the Cloud Accounts team (2023 - Current):
    Team scope includes building tools and service to manage Cloud Provider at scale (AWS, GovCloud, GCP, Azure, OracleOCI). Automating cloud infrastructure provisioning (Terraform, CI/CD, Account Vending, and Identity Management (IAM)) via Temporal workflows.

    As as a manager I'm responsible for:
    ● Team rituals - standups, planning, execution, retrospectives
    ● Defining team's scope and setting expectations with Eng Leadership across the company
    ● Performance and Career development (career development from interns to seasoned professionals)
    ● Quarterly planning process (OKRs)

    Specifically in this role, I collaborate directly with Cloud Providers to m
  • Dropbox
    Team Lead / SRE
    Dropbox
    Jun 2020 - May 2021 (1 year)
    Building Cloud Platform for Dropbox. TL of Fleet Management team in Infrastructure org. Team provides services and tools to manage datacenter hardware, AWS cloud, OS and configuration management. We partner with rest of infrastructure teams at Dropbox to drive efficiency around hardware/cloud lifecycle and capacity.

    Responsibilities:
    ● Setting and prioritising goals for the team (9 engineers)
    ● Work with customers and technical leadership across orgs to align on priorities and strategy
    ● Mentor and guide engineers on the team to make sure team is setup for success
    ● Drive team's oncall process, expectations, SLAs and response process
  • Dropbox
    Senior SRE
    Dropbox
    Aug 2017 - Jun 2020 (2 years 11 months)
    Leading project to move services deployments to CI/CD framework.
    Designed and built CI/CD Deployment Pipelines system, migrated all critical services onto this system.
    System serves as a core of main software delivery pipeline. It is flexible and pluggable, over two years in production and extended with features similar to Netflix Spinnaker project.
  • Dropbox
    Global Site Availability Oncall Lead
    Dropbox
    Jan 2016 - Sep 2019 (3 years 9 months)
    Global Core-Oncall response team. Core-Oncall task is to respond and triage site availability incidents within 5 minutes. Maintained follow-the-sun rotation (onboard engineers onto rotation, scheduling trainings, identified and addressed gaps in oncall response process). Improving postmortem process. Coordinated process between SF, NYC and Dublin. Working with cross functional teams (payroll).
  • Dropbox
    SRE
    Dropbox
    Aug 2015 - Aug 2017 (2 years 1 month)
    Infrastructure Provisioning:
    All things around AWS instance management: EC2, EBS, ELB, VPC.
    Tooling and services to control lifecycle of EC2 instances and physical hosts.
    Migration from Puppet to Chef.
  • Amazon Web Services AWS
    Software Engineer, II
    Amazon Web Services AWS
    Feb 2013 - Aug 2015 (2 years 7 months)
    1) Software Engineer II, AWS Monitoring, CloudWatch (January 2015 - August 2015)
    Building monitoring solutions for AWS.
    Java, Hadoop.

    2) Software Engineer II, Network Monitoring (February 2013 - January 2015)
    Building AWS network monitoring backend services and tools primarily in Python, Java, Scala and JavaScript. Developing capacity models and KPI metrics for backend services.
  • Yandex
    Team Lead
    Yandex
    Jun 2008 - Jan 2013 (4 years 8 months)
    1)Engineering Manager, search performance (June 2012 – January 2013)
    Search projects infrastructure.
    Build and test automation tools.

    2)Software Engineer, search performance (June 2010 – June 2012 )
    Developer, Real-time cluster monitoring.
    Python, Linux, Freebsd, MySQL.

    3)Software Engineer, web services (July 2009 – June 2010)
    Development of large web services with 200k - 2M visitors a day (Python, Django, MySQL, Memcached, etc.)

    4)Software Engineer Intern (June 2008 – July 2009)
    Internal services for statistics and data analysis of weather forecasts (Django, Python, MySQL, XPath)
    User clicks visualisation tool (heat-map) (Javascript, Python)
    Python, Django, Javascript
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • National College of Ireland
    Master’s Degree, Cloud Computing
    National College of Ireland
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2015 (2 years 1 month)
  • Ural State University named after AMGorky
    Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science
    Ural State University named after AMGorky
    Jan 2004 - Jan 2008 (4 years 1 month)
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    Migration of batch log-processing job from Apache Hadoop Map-Reduce to Apache Spark in the public cloud
    masters dissertation thesis
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