Gleb Uvarov

Cloud & Platform Architect | Distributed Data Systems | Tech Lead

Certificates

Education

Engineer - Systems Analyst | Artificial Intelligence

Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus
2005 - 2010

Languages

  • English (C1)
  • Dutch (A2)
  • Russian (Native)

Skills & Proficiency

  • Java | Spring | Python | Golang | Shell
  • Airflow | Spark | Camunda | Kafka Streams | Spring Cloud Dataflow
  • AWS | Azure | Kubernetes | Docker
  • Terraform | ArgoCD | Helm | Jenkins | Prometheus | Grafana | Linux
  • GitLab | GitHub | Bitbucket
  • Kafka | ElasticSearch | Lucene | PostgreSQL | MongoDB | InfluxDB

Career Profile

Hi there! I’m Gleb — a cloud and platform architect in the Netherlands, currently leading data engineering and analytics at a European clearing house 🚀

Over 15+ years I’ve designed and run enterprise-grade distributed systems — event-driven platforms, large-scale data and retrieval pipelines, and the cloud-native infrastructure underneath them — across finance, intellectual property and manufacturing.

Core Competencies

Cloud & Infrastructure

Private, hybrid and public cloud (AWS, Azure), Containers & orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD, Monitoring & Observability

Back-End Engineering

Java | Spring, Event-driven architecture, Kafka, REST APIs

Leadership & Customer Engagement

Enterprise stakeholder alignment, Architecture workshops, Cross-functional coordination, Regulated environments

Experiences

Tech Lead, Data Engineering & Analytics

May 2026 - Present
Cboe Clear Europe, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tech lead for the data engineering and analytics platform (Python, Airflow, Spark, Camunda), leading 3 engineers across real-time pricing, regulatory reporting, risk and client analytics

  • Delivered the first Camunda-Airflow integration, giving the business a consolidated view of intraday operational state where no integration previously existed
  • Built Airflow DAG reporting into Grafana with alerting, establishing operational visibility across the platform’s data pipelines
  • Drove adoption of AI-assisted development (Claude Code) across the engineering group, establishing usage practice and guardrails for a regulated financial environment

Tech Lead, Post-Trade API Platform

Jul 2023 - May 2026
Cboe Clear Europe (via Sytac to Jul 2025), Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tech lead for the mission-critical post-trade clearing and margin API platform at one of Europe’s largest cash-equities clearing houses, engineered for 200k trades/day with 100 tps burst capacity

  • Designed the platform’s Kubernetes and GitOps architecture (ArgoCD, Terraform) and led migration of 30+ Java/Spring microservices onto it; modernization strategy signed off at CTO level
  • Owned end-to-end delivery of 25+ production releases with zero rollbacks and no P1/P2 incidents, aligning business, compliance, operations and security on each
  • Set the observability standard adopted across the platform, cutting MTTR from hours to minutes
  • Raised deployment frequency from monthly to daily

Mission Critical Engineer

Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Schuberg Philis (via Sytac), Schiphol-Rijk, Netherlands

Global manufacturing IoT data platform for a Schuberg Philis customer - 100 signals/sec from ~900 production lines across 100 sites, with 1,200+ edge deployments

  • Built heartbeat detection for sensor liveness and automated new-site rollout on top of it, cutting site onboarding from days to hours
  • Delivered the Data Platform API (Go, AWS) for shop-floor workers and third-party vendors globally

Tech Lead, Data Enrichment Platform

Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
European Patent Office (via Sam Solutions), Rijswijk, Netherlands

Tech lead for the Data Enrichment Platform, leading 3 engineers - distributed annotation pipelines over a 110M+ document corpus, peaking at ~1,000 annotations/sec

  • Replaced a licensed KNIME deployment with an in-house platform (Java, Kafka, Spring Cloud Dataflow, Kubernetes), ending the licence dependency; still in production after my departure
  • Established the platform’s architecture, CI/CD and alerting; later enrichments were built by other teams and vendors, making it the de facto data platform standard

Senior Software Engineer, Patent Search

Dec 2014 - Jan 2021
European Patent Office (via Sam Solutions), Rijswijk, Netherlands

Java backend engineer on Ansera, EPO’s prior-art patent search over a 110M+ document corpus

  • Implemented the domain-specific query language - ANTLR grammar compiled to Lucene ASTs - plus find-similar, figure-similarity and chemical structure search

Senior Software Engineer | Team Lead

Sep 2009 - Nov 2014
Sam Solutions, Minsk, Belarus

Led 3 engineers across 10+ releases of Fujitsu PRIMERGY datacenter and VMware management tools

  • Implemented SNMP, IPMI and CIM integrations in Java with HMAC-SHA1 and AES-CBC-128 crypto