Yury Ershov
Software Engineer at MongoDB
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolYury Ershov is a seasoned software engineer and tech lead with 12+ years building high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems for companies like Google, Yandex, Microsoft, and MongoDB. He specializes in storage engines, real-time services, and performance optimization, with concrete wins such as cutting data pipeline runtime by 90% and saving petabytes of storage and hundreds of CPUs. Comfortable across C/C++/Python and low-level assembly to TypeScript, he blends deep systems expertise (parallel computing, networking, embedded) with pragmatic team leadership and cross-cultural collaboration. Notably, he designed and operated petabyte-scale mail storage across multiple datacenters and eliminated significant resource inefficiencies at planet-scale services. Based in Greater Sydney, he brings a mix of hands-on coding, mentoring, and stakeholder-facing delivery that reliably turns complex requirements into robust, efficient production systems.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
master, science, master, science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian
Github Skills (12)
databases10
cpp10
mongodb10
cplus10
mongodb-database10
wiredtiger10
database10
debugging9
data-structures8
testing8
data-structure8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ershov/kitty_config
Jun 2023 - May 2025
Full config 'kitten' for Kitty terminal.
Contributions:1 review, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
ershov/reaper64
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:96 commits, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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