Valentin Kulichenko Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Santa Clara, California, US

Wilmington, Delaware, US

Devoted Apache Ignite community member: contributing code, participating in architectural discussions, and helping users solve their technical issues.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

- Assumed responsibility for multiple product areas of YugabyteDB (high availability, disaster recovery, data backups, point-in-time recovery, and others).- Successfully managed several projects - gathered requirements, built and maintained roadmaps, delivered releases to open source users and enterprise customers.- Performed cross-team coordination.

Foster City, California, US

- Led development of the next generation of GridGain In-Memory Computing Platform. Focused on improvements in usability and developer experience, architectural modernization, and expansion to new markets.- Identified product related challenges associated with the GridGain products. Gathered feedback from multiple channels: existing and potential customers.

Foster City, California, US

- Built architectures for mission-critical customer facing applications based on Apache Ignite and GridGain.- Managed pre-sales proof-of-concept projects for a variety of use cases.- Advised prospects and current customers on the best methods for operationalizing Apache Ignite and GridGain.- Participated in global evangelism efforts, conducted webinars.

Foster City, California, US

- Was fully responsible for managing operations and implementing processes for North America customer success.- Ensured customer satisfaction and retention through customer support activities.- Continuously contributed to the architecture of the GridGain platform, its APIs and various integrations.

Foster City, California, US

- Participated in the development of GridGain's Enterprise distributed in-memory computing and data storage platform.- Implemented several development projects from scratch, including - but not limited to - custom serialization/deserialization protocols, continuous queries capabilities, and multiple integration components.

Moscow, RU

- Participated in the design and development of an online billing system based on Oracle CC&B.

- Designed and implemented a website builder as a part of a large-scale content management platform for businesses.- Implemented a real-time reporting tool for automatically uploading data and generating aggregated reports.