Before coming to Percona he worked on improving performance and reliability of high load projects with LAMP architecture. His work consisted in developing fast servers and modules with C and C++, projects state monitoring, searching bottlenecks, open source projects patching including nginx, memcache, sphinx, php, ejabberd. He took part in developing not only server-side applications, but desktop and mobile ones too. Also he had experience in project/product management, hiring, partners negotiations. Before that he worked in several IT companies where he developed desktop applications on C++ for such areas as industrial automation, parallel computing, media production. He holds a Master's Degree in Technique and Technology from Tula State University. Now he lives in Tula city with his wife and daughter.