Artem Yakimenko
Engineering Director, SRE at Primary Venture Partners
Wollongong City Council, New South Wales, Australia
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RockstarArtem Yakimenko is an Engineering Director, SRE with 12 years of experience leading remote teams and building reliable, cost-effective distributed systems across startups and Google-scale environments. He has grown and operationalized SRE functions end-to-end—scaling Mr Yum globally, tripling team size, and reducing customer-facing outages tenfold—while at Culture Amp delivering over $300k in annual AWS savings and owning 26 SOC2 Type II controls. Artem is adept at shepherding teams through reorganizations and layoffs, improving prioritization, impact and engineer satisfaction via clearer goals and autonomy. A practical mentor with 100+ advisory engagements and free office hours for early-career folks, he pairs people development with technical rigor. As an open-source maintainer (notably fog-google and the vagrant-google plugin) he brings deep cloud API and developer-tooling expertise to production systems, reflecting a candid, pragmatic leadership style signalled by his GitHub bio “Somewhat Reliable Engineering Director.”
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian
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Github Skills (200)
bots10
automation10
cloud-platform10
client-library10
api10
cloud-services10
vagrant10
apt10
virtualbox10
fog10
api-client10
ruby10
menu10
timeseries10
virtualization10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Temikus/mac-packaging
May 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
Temikus/do-ddns
Jun 2015 - Oct 2020
Openwrt DDNS script using Digital Ocean domains API
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 5 years 4 months
apioceanopenwrtddnsdigital-ocean
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