Overview

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Konstantin Gredeskoul is a highly-skilled technical leader, startup CTO, and an open-source contributor.

Four times in a row, Konstantin served as a CTO, rolling up sleeves when necessary and applying his expertise in Ruby, PostgreSQL, DevOps, and BASH programming.

During his tenure as a CTO, he was leading teams up to 25 engineers. He was directly involved in designing and developing two large e-commerce sites (ModCloth and Infectious). He also built the two massive socially connected e-commerce marketplaces (Wanelo.com and Blurb.com). Wanelo had reached the peak traffic of 200,000 RPMs, which the Ruby backend served with an average latency of 80ms. Wanelo.com registered an incredible uptime of 99.995% on Konstantin's watch.

Konstantin has a passion for building well-oiled engineering teams from diverse backgrounds that harness the incredible power of pair-programming, TDD, collaborative software designs, infrastructure automation, and continuous deployment.

He authored over forty open-source ruby gems and is fluent in Ruby, C/C++, Go, Java and BASH. His Ruby Gems have been downloaded over 23M times. His Slideshare Talks (https://slideshare.net/kigster) have been watched by over 250K people worldwide. Konstantin is regularly invited to conferences where he speaks on a wide range of topics.

They range from topics:

— "DevOps without the Ops"'
— "Ruby Concurrency"
— "Analyzing massive event streams using distributed Object Stores and Lambda Functions."
— His more popular presentation (with 80K views) is titled "From Obvious to Ingenius: Incrementally Scaling Web Apps on PostgreSQL."