# Slava Bakhmutov

> Engineer

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/slavabakhmutov

I am an experienced senior engineer and entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience. I have a passion for building and launching products.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Loyal
Jan 2023 – Present | California, United States
Built infrastructure for internal services from the ground up—research, analytics, data warehouse. Everything on AWS, automated with Terraform.

Spun up multiple Kubernetes clusters, wired up observability for monitoring and troubleshooting—no blind spots.

Designed and developed an internal system to manage data for a large-scale research project. Made data accessible, structured, and manageable.

### Founder @ Fikabo
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Portland, Oregon, United States
At Fikabo we re-engineer hiring for startups. Our goal is for startup founders and their teams to save 75% of time spent on hiring, while bumping their hiring success rate to the industry maximum.

### Co-Founder/CTO @ Tulula
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Building a successful profitable product with a very lean team
- Developer-focused virtual events and community engagement platform
- Clients: Docker, JFrog, Pulumi, Couchbase, and many more
- Enabling hundreds of tech events that drive hiring, product development, community growth, and sales.
- Hosted live events for over 10k live attendees.

Keywords:
Go, typescript, kubernetes, istio, envoy, Terraform, rtmp/webrtc, fastly.

### Site Reliability Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Core on-call team member, front-line defense for all Dropbox infrastructure..
- Interviewed hundreds of engineers to build the SRE team.
- Built and maintained a database orchestration system managing nearly 10k MySQL servers.
- Reduced MySQL disk utilization by 30% in just 8 months
- Rolled out automation and auto-remediation systems to keep things running smooth and resilient, even when things went sideways.

Keywords:
Go, Python, MySQL, reliability

### Senior Software Engineer @ Yandex
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Moscow
Built cloud services handling 50k+ requests per second for Yandex Browser.
Developed and maintained deployment tools to keep infrastructure solid.

Earned a patent (2014-0006-MOB-PD1) for "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING A DEVICE VIA A WEB BROWSER".

Python, Go

### Software Engineer @ Metabar
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Built a web service to collect statistical information for more than 200k online users. 
Developed an analytical system based on MongoDB which transforms terabytes of raw user data to useful reports.

### Software Engineer @ Innova Systems
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Developed an online movie theater http://ayyo.ru. Designed API for mobile devices and SmartTv. Built systems for video content processing. Worked directly with partners from Philips, Widevine, TeliaSonera, LimeLight Network etc.

Used technologies: Python, Django, Gevent, Tornado, Postgres, ZeroMQ etc.


## Education
### Master's degree in Information Technologies
Siberian State Industrial University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/m0sth8

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Last updated: 2026-04-01