Konstantin's Bio

March 2023

Konstantin Gredeskoul is a veteran software engineer, whose career spans multiple decades and multiple continents. He received his degree in pure Mathematics from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and joined one of the pioneering Australian consultancies, and worked on high profile projects such as National Rails freight tracking distributed messaging system.

After relocating to San Francisco, Konstantin led teams of a dozen startups, building distributed, scalable, fault tolerant software that often served a web-based front-end or, via an API, mobile applications.

Four times in a row, Konstantin served as a CTO and a technical manager, rolling up his sleeves when necessary, and working in the trenches: from writing system-level code in C/C++, to setting up PostgreSQL, Redis and HAProxy, he always approached these problems with enthusiasm and rigor, in the process often mentoring his team and ensuring that nobody was left behind.

Working and leading teams at companies such as Topica, ModCloth, Wanelo, Hired.com, GoShippo, Coinbase, Fossa and HealthSherpa Konstantin always found time to contribute back to the open source, by committing PRs into existing projects (such as BASH-IT), writing his own open source components (over 40 ruby gems with nearly 100M downloads), or even CMAKE-project templates that are in heavy use today by hundreds of projects.

You can read his presentation on https://SlideShare.net/kigster, and you can listen to his DJ-ing on https://soundcloud.com/leftctrl and finally – you can listen to his original music composed and produced by Konstantin as part of the electronic act https://soundcloud.com/PolyGroovers.

And finally, Konstantin writes on his blog — https://kig.re, as well on https://medium.com/@kig