Summary
Serhii Vasylenko is a Staff Platform Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building scalable infrastructure, security automation, and developer experience at fast-moving product companies. He specializes in designing modern infra and migrating services with zero downtime, delivering production-ready platforms for critical launches, and implementing org-wide security controls that preserve developer velocity. At Grammarly and Superhuman he led supply-chain security, CI/CD replatforming, and onboarding of 70+ services to new controls while cutting vulnerabilities and CI failures dramatically. He combines hands-on engineering with team enablement—creating Platform University, productivity tool integrations, and self-service runners that saved hundreds of thousands in annual costs. Known for finding systemic bottlenecks, he fixes them at the infrastructure level so teams don’t repeat mistakes, and he mentors others through coaching and technical leadership. Outside work he’s a DevOps-and-astronomy enthusiast, which reflects a blend of operational rigor and wide curiosity.
11 years of coding experience