Denis Zaitcev
About Denis Zaitcev
Denis Zaitcev is an SRE at Tetrate in Dublin with extensive experience in load balancing, resource management, and production infrastructure security.
Title
Denis Zaitcev holds the title of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
Current Position at Tetrate
Denis Zaitcev is currently employed at Tetrate as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and is based in Dublin.
Previous Roles at Dropbox
From 2017 to 2020, Denis Zaitcev worked as a Site Reliability Engineer at Dropbox. His tenure at Dropbox lasted three years, during which he was based in Dublin.
Experience at Demonware
Denis Zaitcev's career includes a two-year term at Demonware, where he served as a Site Reliability Engineer between 2015 and 2017. He was located in Dublin during this period.
Role at Yandex
Denis Zaitcev worked at Yandex from 2010 to 2015. Serving as an SRE Team Leader, he was based in Moscow, Russian Federation, for five years.
Education and Expertise
Denis Zaitcev studied at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, where he completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. He attended the university from 2006 to 2009. He has gained expertise in load balancing, resource management, networking, multi-tenancy, containerization runtimes, Linux kernel, and production infrastructure security.
Professional Interests and Areas of Work
Denis Zaitcev has a broad range of professional interests that include CI/CD, code quality, development tooling and experience, observability and monitoring, multicloud infrastructure-as-code, incident response and on-call processes, architecture and design, and troubleshooting complex networking installations. He enjoys working on complex problems, particularly in greenfield environments.
Major Project Involvement
Denis Zaitcev launched a multicloud SaaS platform that adhered to strict availability and security requirements. He also contributed significantly as the first SRE/production person at a hyper-growth infrastructure startup.