Konstantin Root
Chief Technology Officer at Thrill Labs
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolKonstantin Root is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with 14+ years building and scaling high-throughput, distributed systems for millions of users. He has led large cross-functional initiatives at Miro—architecting microservice platforms, Documents/Tables for 100+ engineers, and a multi-region Data Residency program—and repeatedly transformed monoliths into resilient service-oriented architectures. Equally comfortable in boardroom strategy and low-level performance tuning, he has hands-on expertise in event streaming, DynamoDB/Postgres, CDN/latency optimization, and cryptography at 10k+ rps. Known for growing and retaining high-performing teams (scaling orgs from single digits to 50+), he pairs pragmatic product thinking with deep technical rigor. Based in Tallinn, he also pursues ML and deep learning work and has a track record of practical research-driven features such as automated image moderation and reinforced-learning experiments for verification.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Deep Learning Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence at UdacityComputer Science, Computer Science at TalTech – Tallinn University of TechnologyTonismae Reaalkool
English, Russian, Estonian
Github Skills (40)
service-mesh10
architecture10
high-availability10
orientdb10
storage10
databases10
distributed-systems10
networking10
site-reliability-engineering10
high-performance10
scalability10
encryption10
polly10
filter9
proxy8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
krootee/ClassDiver
May 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:125 commits in 2 months
krootee/awesome-scalability-toolbox
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
My opinionated list of products and tools used for high-scalability projects
Contributions:390 commits, 1 PR, 383 pushes in 5 years 4 months
containerssite-reliability-engineeringtracingnetworkingpolly
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