Arkadi Yaroslavtsev
About Arkadi Yaroslavtsev
Arkadi Yaroslavtsev is an Engineering Manager at Metabase Cloud, where he has significantly improved service delivery and cost efficiency. He has a diverse background in engineering roles across various companies, including Pitney Bowes and Check Point Software Technologies.
Work at Metabase
Arkadi Yaroslavtsev currently serves as the Engineering Manager for Metabase Cloud, a position he has held since 2021. In this role, he has focused on enhancing the delivery speed of customer self-serve features by redesigning the SaaS service schema. He has also improved Stripe subscription lifecycle management, which simplified past-due collections and reduced operational toil. Notably, he achieved SOC2 Type 1 and 2 compliance for Metabase Cloud with minimal cost and inconvenience. His leadership facilitated the migration of Metabase's hosting platform from ECS to EKS (k8s) with zero downtime, enabling faster delivery of customer-facing features.
Previous Experience
Prior to his role at Metabase, Arkadi Yaroslavtsev held various positions in different organizations. He worked at Pitney Bowes from 2015 to 2019, where he served as Application Reliability Architect and later as Engineering Manager for Insights, Analytics, and Data. His earlier experience includes roles at Borderfree, where he was a Senior Support Engineer and Team Lead for Engineering Support, and at Check Point Software Technologies as a QA Engineer. He also worked at Strategy Runner as a Tier 2 Support Engineer.
Education and Expertise
Arkadi Yaroslavtsev studied at Handesaim in Tel Aviv from 1999 to 2002. His educational background has contributed to his expertise in engineering management and application reliability. He has demonstrated proficiency in cloud technologies, observability stacks, and subscription lifecycle management, which are critical in his current role at Metabase.
Achievements in Engineering Management
During his tenure at Metabase, Arkadi Yaroslavtsev implemented a cost reduction strategy that resulted in a 20% decrease in AWS spending while simultaneously growing the Cloud business by 4.5 times. He led the migration of Metabase's observability stack to Grafana/Prometheus/Loki from Cloudwatch, enhancing the platform's monitoring capabilities. His contributions have significantly improved operational efficiency and customer service delivery.