About us

Sebastian Stadil, Founder, CEO.
Sebastian is your typical munchkin, min-maxing everything he possibly can, and applying this special know-how to Scalr. When not being a complete nerd, he runs the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, consisting of about 5500 members who meet monthly to trade war stories from operating infrastructure.
Prior to founding Scalr, Sebastian had a social life and enjoyed skiing, juggling, and getting his butt kicked playing rugby.

Igor Savchenko, CTO.
Igor is responsible for system and code engineering. He has worked with web technologies and PHP since the tender age of 15 and has extensive experience building farms and load-balanced clusters for high-load web applications.

Nick Toursky, Director of Support and Services.
Nickolas is your go-to guy who answers all your questions and helps you when you’re feeling lost.

Marat Komarov, Senior Programmer.
Marat is responsible for Scalr development, architectural design, and user interfaces.

Igor Vodiasov, Engineer.
Igor graduated from Sevastopol State University with a magister degree in computer science. He has earned his stripes as a PHP and JavaScript engineer for more than 8 years.

Dmitry Korsakov, Engineer.
Dmitry graduated from Sevastopol State University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. He has been a Linux engineer since 2006 and boasts more than 7 years of total experience in systems engineering.

Nick Demyanchuk, Engineer.
Nick graduated from Sevastopol State University with a bachelor’s degree in information systems. He has been a Linux automation engineer and Linux system administrator since he discovered Unix systems in 2006.

Yulia Varzar, Engineer.
Yulia graduated from Odessa Computer Academy with a bachelor’s degree in software development. She has been a PHP and JavaScript engineer since 2008.

Oleg Suharev, Python Test Developer.
Oleg is responsible for the development of testing tools and functional testing of Scalr.

Sam Bukreev, Python Engineer.
Sam graduated from Sevastopol State University with a bachelor’s degree in automation systems and control.

Anton Kovalyov, Graphics designer.
Anton designs all of Scalr’s icons, as well as the awesome explanatory comic strip seen in the Scalr tour.

Julien Rialan, Business development.
Julien leads business development and customer success at Scalr.
Before extracting money from our partnerships, Julien extracted it from the financial markets at Goldman Sachs.

Michel Galibert, Marketing.
Michel runs marketing for us at Scalr. You’ll always see him with his TI-83, calculating today’s conversion rates, and the return from the ad money he spent the day before.
Prior to Scalr, Michel worked at Google in the AdWords team.

Robin Piedeleu, Sales.
Robin runs our well oiled sales machine, sending in SWAT teams to coerce everyone and their mom to sign up to a paid plan.
Prior to Scalr, Robin coordinated sales and marketing for L’Occitane, a luxury beauty products company.

Dave Naffis, cofounder of Intridea.
As Intridea’s lead architect and an expert Ruby on Rails developer, Dave heads the Intridea product development efforts. He is an active member of the Rails community and the author of numerous plugins. Before Intridea, Dave spent years at both AOL and IMAKE and received a MSc in systems engineering from the University of Virginia. Dave also built and operated CanYouConnect, a social-networking site that competed with MySpace, and Connexon Media, a Rails consultancy. Dave helped found the Washington, D.C. Ruby User Group as well

Sebastian Stadil, Founder, CEO.
Sebastian Stadil also serves on the board of directors.