Hi, I’m Sergey

I specialize in taming complexity in distributed systems and transforming groups of people into cohesive teams. In my free time, I host tea ceremonies and devour books. I use Arch, btw.

What You Can Find Here

Technical articles:

• Odes to good code: Pagination in APIs, Alive domain model.
• Go: Structured logging, context package: a professional’s perspective.

Articles about development management:

• People development: Deep divers, Key employees, Gratitude.
• System architecture: Architecture: Modernity, Reliable systems.
• Strategy over tactics: Engineering strategy, Scaling vs net negative churn.
• Team organization: Amdahl’s law in management.

My Journey

• Built large-scale systems: in mapping (CDN for 20M+ users, data pipelines processing tens of thousands of messages per second) and cybersecurity (SOAR, TIPs).
• Led teams: hired and onboarded dozens of engineers, aligned Chinese and Russian teams to common goals, shipped both v1 and v10 of mission-critical systems.
• Taught: operating systems, parallel programming, and cybersecurity.

I believe any problem can be solved if you know enough about it and have the right people by your side.

Start Here

New to the blog? Try these:

• The hamming question: answer – What problems should you work on?
• Strong opinions — How to hold and apply strong opinions.
• Fountainhead value – On the common weakness of memory in computers and people.
• Top-level domains – Fun things to know about domain names.
• Reliable systems - about the foundational ideas behind reliable systems.

Let’s Connect

• Write comments to new posts: Telegram channel.
• Debate books: Goodreads | Bookwyrm.
• Get in touch: See contacts in resume.

Why neexee?

I love Unix philosophy, Linux, and Open Source in general. So I call myself *nix artist or neexee.