Denis Rystsov

Denis Rystsov is a staff engineer at Vectorized working on Redpanda, a Kafka-compatible distributed event streaming platform. His area of experience lays in distributed transactions, consensus algorithms, and testing consistency models. He likes to track academic computer science research and use it as leverage in the industry.

Denis volunteers as a member of the Hydra program committee and as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Systems Research (JSys).

He received his MSc in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from SPbSU. Before joining Vectorized he worked at Yandex, Amazon, and Microsoft. Apart from coding/researching he likes surfing and exploring the waters of the PNW on a SUP.