Eugene Retunsky
Principal Engineer at Snowflake
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEugene Retunsky is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years building and optimizing large distributed systems, currently driving platform work at Snowflake from Bellevue, WA. He combines hands-on development with technical leadership, having led performance transformations at Google Cloud Storage and AWS that delivered order-of-magnitude latency and throughput improvements. Earlier roles as CTO and founder-stage lead show he scales teams and infrastructure—growing Tongal’s engineering org from 6 to 50 while launching the product and winning major clients. Known internally as a top interviewer and force-multiplier, he blends system design, measurement/simulation frameworks, and operational rigor to tackle performance, security, and reliability challenges. Eugene’s background in mathematics and competitive TopCoder experience underline a pragmatic, algorithmic approach to complex production problems.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
Russian, English
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Github contributions (5)
xnuter/perf-gauge
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Benchmarking tool for network services.
Contributions:5 releases, 111 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 4 months
benchmarkingnetwork-service
aws/http-desync-guardian
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Analyze HTTP requests to minimize risks of HTTP Desync attacks (precursor for HTTP request smuggling/splitting).
Contributions:1 review, 31 commits, 11 PRs in 17 days
http-desynchttp-smugglinghttp-request-smuggling
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