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

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He is passionate about entrepreneurship and cutting-edge engineering challenges. That’s why he serves as both company strategist and the architect of main Palark products.

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

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

Dmitry builds Palark’s image and is actively involved in the life of cloud-native & DevOps worldwide communities.

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He combined his passion for IT and high-quality, helpful texts by getting his first technical articles printed in popular magazines at the age of 13. Since then, Dmitry has been using his skills to share technical knowledge with a broader community.

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Professional interests: Open Source & Free Software movement, Linux, DevOps.

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

Mikhail handles financial and legal issues to fuel us with all the needed workforce, subcontractors, and paperwork.

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Straight after becoming a bachelor in business administration, he started his career preparing financial statements, managing various logistics processes and, later, employees.

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After attaining a master’s in finance and accounting, Mikhail gained expertise in construction project accounting, communication with authorities, and advisory support. Combining all this experience, he is now passionate about coordinating a vast scope of business operations and development. Professional interests: finance management strategies, business management plans development.

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Mikhail resides near Neu-Ulm, Germany, with his wife, two children, and a cat. He plays basketball in a local club as a hobby.

Ilya is a seasoned business development specialist who brings the best-of-breed solutions to our partners and direct customers.

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He started his career as a technical specialist in IT and soon moved to other business roles, driving his passion for communication and relationship building. During the past years, Ilya has facilitated our expansion into Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Central European regions.

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Professional interests: public speaking and business development tactical moves.

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His hobbies include travelling (40+ countries and counting), platform diving and alpine skiing.

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Andrei is in charge of managing our server infrastructure and delivering the DevOps values for our customers.

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After going through software development, operations, and team management, he is keen on blending all this experience to integrate Dev and Ops smoothly and build a superior service on top of it. Andrei is always here to help our customers with any sophisticated issues they might have.

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Professional interests: DevOps, software architecture, team management.

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Andrei resides in Ulm, Germany, with his wife, son, husky, and cat. Raising a son is his favourite hobby.

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Vasily helps us sleep well thanks to governing information security, data privacy, and compliance.

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His professional career has always been maintaining IT systems on different platforms and levels (hardware, networking, software). Calling himself “Sherlock Holmes in DevOps,” Vasily turned his primary focus into security issues in recent years. He believes 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.

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Professional interests: complicated software architectural challenges, InfoSec and privacy, database management.

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Vasily resides in Ulm, Germany, with his wife, son, and daughter. He is a devoted bird photographer and a passionate bibliophile who thinks you can just buy books and promise yourself that you’ll read them. Vasily likes reading The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski, watching The Witcher on 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.