Stas Kelvich
Summary
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RockstarStas Kelvich is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building distributed systems, databases, and full-stack applications. As co-founder of Neon and now Member of Technical Staff at Databricks, he has worked on serverless Postgres internals—replication, transaction logging and page storage—while also contributing front-end and documentation improvements for Neon’s website. His background includes deep systems work at Postgres Professional (multi‑master replication, quorum commit protocols, cross-node snapshot isolation) and research in theoretical physics, giving him a rare blend of rigorous formal thinking and practical engineering. Comfortable across C++, Python, Ruby and web stacks, he bridges low-level performance tuning and developer-facing UX. Notably, he has shipped both core database primitives and Cloudflare-backed documentation deployment pipelines, showing attention to both infrastructure and the developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
databases10
gatsbyjs10
rust10
replication10
relational-databases10
react10
gatsby10
sql-database10
database10
website-development9
website-design9
serverless9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
neondatabase/neon
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:412 reviews, 159 commits, 201 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Stas primarily focused on implementing core features and functionality within the Neon serverless Postgres database. Their commits show work on internal page service implementations, including features for accessing, retrieving and storing pages, which are essential for database operations. They have also contributed to low-level replication and transaction logging components, suggesting a focus on database internals and performance. Moreover, the user's work extends to the interaction with other services, showcasing their work on full-stack database development.
autoscalingdatabasepostgresqlserverlesspostgres
neondatabase/website
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Official docs and website for Neon.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 41 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Stas primarily contributed to the website's frontend and documentation aspects. They updated the website's console functionality, implemented a Cloudflare deployment pipeline for documentation, and made typo fixes and text iterations across various components. Additionally, the user updated the GTM code and made minor changes to the site's appearance and wording, indicating a focus on improving the user experience and streamlining the deployment process.
gatsbydesignneon
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