Our team

We provide services to customers, develop products and facilitate business processes. Below are the people in charge.

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  Andrey Kolashtov

  CEO
  Head of Engineering

  

  Andrey Kolashtov

  CEO
  Head of Engineering

  Andrey leads the development of the Okmeter monitoring system and actively participates in complex projects combining operations, SRE, and observability. He helps identify and eliminate issues related to team collaboration and comes up with creative solutions to dead-end problems.

  Andrey started his IT career as a web developer and Linux engineer. In 2010, he joined Flant while studying at an institute. At Flant, he worked his way up from engineer to solution architect to running high-load applications.

  Andrey has interests in Linux, DevOps, high-loaded systems architecture, product management, and web development.

  Andrey currently resides in Talinn with his wife and son. He enjoys fishing and traveling.

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  Dmitry Stolyarov

  CTO

  

  Dmitry Stolyarov

  CTO

  Dmitry helps us figure out the Where’s, Why’s, How’s, and other such questions.

  Dmitry has seventeen years of Linux experience and more than 14 years of operation-related experience (including maintenance for highload applications). He programs in C, PHP, Python, Bash, and has outstanding knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes. Dmitry is the architect and co-author of werf, Deckhouse, Okmeter, and other company products.

  Professional interests: people, hardcore engineering, product management, and business development strategies.

  He currently resides in Ulm, Germany, with his wife and two sons. Dmitry is an avid alpine skier and yachtsman and often sails with his family.

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  Dmitry Shurupov

  Head of marketing
  Editor-in-chief

  

  Dmitry Shurupov

  Head of marketing
  Editor-in-chief

  Dmitry is a big fan of high-quality, informative texts. He is responsible for Flant's image in global communities.

  In 2000, he installed the first Linux distribution intending to dive into programming. Since that, he would never stop exploring and enjoying the beauty of the Linux ecosystem. In 2005-2013, he served as the editor-in-chief of the “Open Source” e-magazine.

  He considers the Open Source phenomenon to be his professional passion and says that his biggest motivation is reaching out to people's minds and hearts with words. In addition to shaping the company's image, Dmitry is actively engaged in internal processes related to the company values, culture, and knowledge sharing.

  He lives in Thailand with his wife and daughter. His hobbies include yoga, meditation, and other self-development practices.

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  Vasily Marmer

  DevOps team lead

  

  Vasily Marmer

  DevOps team lead

  Vasily is in charge of the DevOps team. He envisages himself as a team leader who will automate processes for the first Martian colony (remotely).

  Before joining Flant, he was a system administrator at a major bank. He has a wealth of experience associated with many tasks typical of an IT engineer. He believes that there are no problems that cannot be solved, just problems that are poorly stated. He also believes that no task, whether it be technical or managerial, can get off the ground without a good joke.

  Vasily currently resides in Bali, Indonesia, with his wife, son, and daughter. He is a devoted bird photographer and a passionate bibliophile who thinks that you can just buy books and promise yourself that you’ll read them. He likes reading The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski, watching The Witcher by Netflix, and playing The Witcher on a PC. He buys a new RPG on Steam once a year and plays it for half an hour.

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  Alexey Igrychev

  Team lead of the Delivery
  development team

  

  Alexey Igrychev

  Team lead of the Delivery
  development team

  As head of the Delivery team, Alexey helps codify experiences, best practices, and building processes related to app delivery to Kubernetes. The team develops and maintains several popular Open Source tools: werf, kubedog, and trdl.

  Before Flant, Alexey worked as a courier, small project manager, and quality engineer. He had also been involved in freelance web development and administration.

  Alexey currently resides with his wife, daughter, and son in Lisbon, Portugal. He considers the continuous change of scenery and routines an integral part of his life.

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  Anna Sukhanova

  Recruiter

  

  Anna Sukhanova

  Recruiter

  Anna finds the best candidates for us all over the world. She believes that working at Flant changes life for the better, helps you grow, opens up new opportunities, and expands your horizons so that you can achieve your boldest dreams.

  She has a master's degree in clinical psychology and a post-master's degree in psychological coaching and counseling.

  Anna currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal, with her husband and two children. She works at Flant in the daytime and pursues her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in the evenings. She is an avid traveler as well.

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  Andrej von Berg

  Business Development Manager
  DACH Region

  

  Andrej von Berg

  Business Development Manager
  DACH Region

  Andrej helps to establish Flant in the German speaking regions of Europe.

  He stems his skills and knowledge about business development from 10 years experience in retail where he was responsible for growth, profitability, operations and market access. He helped Zalando in the production process, and developed supply networks throughout the country. For IKEA, he developed the ecommerce channel, worked as a finance manager for 4 years, and recently became a business developer in the global supply office in Switzerland.

  Andrej holds a bachelor degree in international business, a masters degree in supply chain management and a MBA with the focus on growing companies (finance and operations).

  Andrej lives in Bern, Switzerland with his wife and two kids. In his free time he enjoys skiing, running and exercising.