Yuri (IURII) Trukhin

Selected outcomes

• €40M+ annual recurring revenue - built #CloudMTS (MTS Web Services) from employee #1 and an internal hobby project into a hyperscaler (#2 in regional IaaS by revenue, MTS 2020 annual report), creating Cloud Hub, Cloud Billing, Open Cloud Standard v1/v2 and 14 cloud services
• 1 → 4 PFLOPS commercial NVIDIA DGX-1 Tesla V100 GPU cloud I launched in July 2019 and ran as a product for AI training and inference (MTS)
• 15M+ · 3x · +25 developers on JetBrains tools; 3x adoption growth and +25 NPS across Docker, Kubernetes and AI workflow features on the IntelliJ Platform
• 140+ people in product, platform engineering and operations at MTS Web Services (#CloudMTS); built the provider's entire engineering vertical end to end, owned the full P&L and beat revenue and EBITDA targets year after year
• SLSA Level 3 global infrastructure, hybrid cloud economics, zero-trust and software supply chain security across CloudLinux and TuxCare, plus Interim CSO
• 300M+ · 60+ daily tokens across autonomous multi-agent workloads and 60+ cloud, observability and developer systems; founder of TRUKHIN #CloudRING, merged upstream contributor to Rook Ceph, OpenClaw (390k+ stars), Chrome DevTools MCP, Dev Containers and RalphX, and contributor across the Linux kernel (arm64 ASLR Reviewed-by: Kees Cook), Kubernetes Kueue, Nebius Soperator, NVIDIA NVSentinel, vLLM AIBrix, Ceph, Kata Containers and OpenNebula

Experience

1. 2025 to now

   CloudLinux · Director of Infrastructure

   Executive scope and organization

   I report to the CloudLinux CEO and direct the global infrastructure organization serving CloudLinux and TuxCare: hybrid data centers and cloud platforms, global networks, CI/CD and developer platforms, observability, infrastructure security and incident response. I authored the 2026 infrastructure strategy, restructured the department into service-aligned platform, storage, IaaS and automation teams, established transparent incident and postmortem governance, and scaled engineering leadership across networking, databases and Kubernetes.

   Enterprise AI transformation

   I proposed and led the company-wide engineering move to Claude Code as its standard AI coding tool, establishing the governance, security rules and budget controls for AI subscriptions, API keys and agent-assisted software delivery, alongside read-only-by-default agentic verification across our infrastructure and observability estate.

   Cloud economics and platform architecture

   I own the multi-year capacity and spend architecture with the CEO and product leaders: annual capacity planning, 12-month financial forecasting, investment governance for material purchases, one-year cloud commitments and department-level FinOps attribution. Architecturally, I drive the evolution of our compute, storage and network footprint: piloting bare-metal KubeVirt as our next virtualization platform, re-architecting high-throughput build and storage tiers across Ceph and NVMe, unifying observability on Grafana, Loki, Mimir and Tempo with service SLOs, and operating redundant multi-site BGP and IPsec fabrics with automated disaster recovery validation across our OpenNebula estate.

   Interim CSO and supply chain security

   In autumn 2025 I also covered the chief security officer role for CloudLinux and TuxCare on an interim basis, alongside my infrastructure mandate, until the permanent CSO joined in November after I redesigned the role profile, led the executive interviews and recommended the hire. I directed security operations and incident response, defined our code-enforced zero-trust access architecture with automated drift detection, delivered infrastructure's part of the SOC 2 Type II audit, aligned incident governance with NIS2, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, GDPR and ISO 27001, and architected SLSA Build Level 3 software supply chain security with isolated ephemeral runners and cryptographically signed daily provenance audits.

2. 2023–2025

   JetBrains · Lead Product (IntelliJ Platform)

   Cloud, AI and DevOps product direction

   I set product direction for cloud, AI and DevOps on the IntelliJ Platform, which most JetBrains IDEs are built on. More than 15 million developers use JetBrains tools. I led the launch of Docker, Kubernetes and AI workflow features: their adoption grew 3x and NPS rose by 25 points. I owned the roadmap and priorities and worked with engineering, design and go-to-market teams to ship features that solved real customer problems, basing those calls on user research, feedback and usage data. My area also covered developer environments: WSL, Docker and Dev Containers, including an upstream contribution merged into the Dev Containers specification in January 2024. For the terminal, I analyzed user feedback and where the legacy engine broke POSIX and terminal standards, and led the product case for a standards-compliant core capable of running modern native CLI tools and AI coding agents; JetBrains rebuilt it and made it the default in JetBrains IDEs in 2025.2.

3. 2018–2023

   MTS · Head of Cloud Platform, MTS Web Services

   Employee #1 to hyperscaler: Cloud Hub, Cloud Billing, Open Cloud Standard v1/v2 and 14 cloud services

   MTS is the largest telecom operator in the CIS, with more than 90 million customers. I joined as the first employee in MTS's cloud engineering department and built the #CloudMTS (MTS Web Services, MWS) hyperscaler end to end, from initial idea and strategy to architecture, implementation and live service operation. Starting from an internal hobby project, I created Cloud Hub and Cloud Billing — the core cloud platform and billing engine — and built the provider's entire engineering vertical and operating processes across sales, customer onboarding, service provisioning, billing and support. I authored Open Cloud Standard v1 and v2, which enabled third-party companies and developers to build first-class multi-tenant cloud services extending #CloudMTS, and launched 14 cloud services across compute, storage, Kubernetes, IoT and AI/ML.

   €40M+ ARR (#2 in regional IaaS), 1 → 4 PFLOPS GPU SuperCloud and 140+ organization

   In 30 months I built and scaled the cloud business from a startup to more than €40M in annual recurring revenue; by MTS's 2020 annual report it was number two in regional IaaS by revenue. One of our flagship services was the GPU cloud: launched in July 2019 on NVIDIA DGX-1 with Tesla V100 GPUs at 1 petaflop, it grew to 4 petaflops by November 2020. In 2019–2020 I ran it as a product, with V100 and vGPU configurations, pricing and customer scenarios for AI training and inference, and presented it at AI Journey. I led more than 140 people in product, platform engineering and operations, headed the cloud development center and platform and services engineering at MTS Web Services (MWS), owned the full P&L, beat our revenue and EBITDA targets year after year, and built the go-to-market plans and partner channels that brought customers in faster and kept them with us longer.

4. 2013–2018

   Infobox · Cloud strategist and evangelist, CTO from 2017

   Cloud strategy, CTO mandate and European multi-DC expansion

   Infobox was one of the first hosting providers in the CIS and the region's first cloud provider, now part of Astra Group. I ran cloud strategy and product development for InfoboxCloud, owned its P&L and EBITDA, and became CTO in 2017. I launched its first IaaS, PaaS and SaaS products, which brought in more customers and kept more of them, opened data centers in Amsterdam and across three regional availability zones, and made InfoboxCloud the fourth-largest Jelastic PaaS provider in the world. Cloud revenue tripled in 18 months. In 2015 we won the hosting category of Microsoft's partner solutions competition with Office24, our sovereign-hosted alternative to Office 365, and we won it again in 2016.

5. 2007–2013

   CNIP GIS, Tver · Researcher, then lead software engineer and architect

   Distributed data systems and scientific computing

   I built systems to store, process and analyze geological data for oil and gas, and they made reserve calculations much faster and more accurate. In 2008 I designed a corporate geological data bank for the company. I built plugins and analysis tools that made geologists and engineers more productive.

Talks and writing

• BYTEBURST series (2025–2026): field reports on multi-agent orchestration, OpenAI Codex vs. Anthropic Claude in executive workflows, Gemini 3 Pro DeepThink, neural memory systems and autonomous software development.
• JetBrains Blog: the new terminal architecture (2025) and Dev Containers in JetBrains IDEs (2024).
• AI Journey: talks several years in a row, including the GPU SuperCloud in medicine.
• A demo of the MTS cloud platform, from sign-up to Kubernetes and billing (2023).
• Debugging Kubernetes with IntelliJ IDEA (2024).
• Articles on the Infobox blog (2014–2017), including a five-part Ansible series with code examples.
• Earlier talks: the Kotlin language at GeekShow 2 in Tver (2011), as founder of the ALT.NET Tver developer group, and Java on Raspberry Pi at JavaOne (2013). Microsoft MVP, 2011–2012.
• Dream Team Principles, my open manifesto on how an engineering team works, now in an AI-era edition.

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