Artemiy Solyakov

Summary

Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and engineering leadership. PhD-level research background with extensive industry certifications.

Technical Skills

Experience

Computer Scientist — Adobe Systems Engineering GmbH

Hamburg, Germany | July 2022 – Present (3+ years)

  • Developed backbone microservices (Python, Go, Node.js, Java) with a global team; the services handle 100 M+ requests per day and meet strict low-latency, high-availability SLAs.
  • Acted as Security Champion — tracked CVEs, coordinated timely patches, and kept the stack compliant with internal security baselines.
  • Owned CI/CD (Jenkins, Argo, Helm), successfully reduced average deployment time from ~120 min to 40 min (-67%).
  • Co-maintained an observability stack (Prometheus, Cortex, Grafana, New Relic), enabling near-real-time alerting and faster incident resolution.
  • Helped implement automated canary analysis with Argo Rollouts & Kayenta, reducing release-related rollbacks and customer impact.
  • Developed ETL pipelines (Python, SQL, PostgreSQL) that consolidate telemetry for critical analytics and ML-driven experimentation.
  • Built and integrated MCP servers for automation workflows, including RAG-based incident report investigation and infrastructure observability improvements.

Software Development Engineer — IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH

Kassel, Germany | June 2013 – June 2022 (9 years)

  • Designed and developed web crawlers (K8S, Node.js, Python, Kafka, Redis) for IBM X-Force Exchange; crawl 10,000+ DGA domains per hour and capture metadata to analyse phishing-campaign evolution.
  • Led cross-functional teams in architectural decisions and development of Lotus Protector for Mail Security, a key enterprise product.
  • Maintained and enhanced legacy codebases (C++, C), refactored core components, and raised test coverage.
  • Shipped three major RHEL-based appliance releases of Lotus Protector, to enterprise customers.
  • Served as DevOps lead for build infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, containerised legacy Jenkins jobs and boosted pipeline stability.
  • Enhanced resource-measurement subsystem for IBM z/Architecture mainframes (Java), improved capacity-planning accuracy for clients.

Certifications

Complete certification portfolio available upon request

Patents

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Education