Elena Morozova
Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolElena Morozova is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade systems in Go, currently working on Google’s Wide Profiling team after contributing to GKE networking and cloud load balancing. She has a strong backend and Kubernetes pedigree from roles at Weaveworks and Flux, and meaningful open-source contributions to high-profile projects like Cortex and Flux that improved config management, alerting integrations, and rollout observability. Elena combines systems-level engineering (distributed profiling, load balancing) with practical DevOps and database work, and has a track record of shipping reliable server-side features and operational endpoints. A seasoned public speaker (KubeCon, GopherCon) and co-organizer of Women Who Go SF, she mentors the community while continuously learning—and once built a whimsical Docker-powered Twitter bot that highlights her taste for playful, production-ready side projects.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree (with honors), Mathematical software and management information systems (Applied Mathematics and Informatics), A+ with distinction, Master degree (with honors), Mathematical software and management information systems (Applied Mathematics and Informatics), A+ with distinction at Moscow State Industrial University (MSIU)
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
postgresql10
apidoc10
alertdialog10
configuration-management10
alertview10
alerts10
gitops10
go10
prometheus10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
statefulset9
notificationmanager9
alarmmanager9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cortexproject/cortex
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 15 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Elena primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Cortex project, focusing on configuration management and alertmanager integrations. They implemented a deep copy function for configuration structs, enabling safe modifications. Further, they added endpoints to activate and deactivate configurations, along with associated database changes. This work involved modifications across several key files, including the database interactions and API endpoints, enhancing the system's operational capabilities.
multi-tenantprometheuskubernetesmonitoringcncf
fluxcd/flux
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
Successor: https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 16 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Elena's primary contribution focused on enhancing the Kubernetes resource status information within the `fluxcd/flux` repository. They implemented detailed pod status retrieval for deployments, daemonSets, and statefulSets, including rollout status and error messages, which improves the observability of Kubernetes deployments. Furthermore, the user fixed issues related to statefulset rollout progress and added error checks and handling throughout the codebase. They also contributed to the overall stability and reliability of the system.
fluxcdkubernetesgitops
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