Artem Vovk

Artem Vovk is a Database Reliability Engineer at Recurly since June 2020, where responsibilities include improving fault tolerance by splitting a multi-tenant MySQL database into multiple clusters and upgrading database clusters from MySQL 5.6 to 8. Prior experience includes a role as Site Reliability Engineer at Postmates Inc., where Artem achieved a 75% reduction in outage frequency and managed a successful migration of a multi-terabyte database to GCP. As a DevOps Engineer at Havenly, Artem containerized deployment pipelines and standardized microservice builds. Previous positions also include Quality Engineer at Fanatics, Inc., QA Engineer at Makpar Corporation, and Software Test Engineer at Fidelis Cybersecurity, alongside teaching classical guitar in various settings. Artem holds multiple degrees in Classical Guitar and Computer Science from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Colorado Boulder.