Meet the team
The Neon team is comprised of PostgreSQL contributors and technologists who are on a mission to create a cloud-native database service for every developer. The Neon CEO is Nikita Shamgunov, co-founder of MemSQL / SingleStore.


Heikki Linnakangas
Co-Founder


Alexey Kondratov
Software Engineer

Anna Stepanyan
Head of Product

Atli Cervantes
Head of PLG Sales

Daniel Price
Technical Writer

Raouf Chebri
Developer Advocate

Anastasia Lubennikova
Software Engineer

Matthias van de Meent
Software Engineer

Konstantin Knizhnik
Software Engineer

Arseny Sher
Software Engineer

Lassi Pölönen
Site Reliability Engineer

Polina Semenova
Software Engineer

Arthur Petukhovsky
Software Engineer

Adrian Torres
People Operations Manager

Irina Hliabovich
Chief of Staff

Andrey Taranik
Site Reliability Engineer

Daniil Efimov
Software Engineer

Anton Chaporgin
Software Engineer

Sergey Melnikov
Site Reliability Engineer

Alexander Bayandin
Lead QA Automation Engineer

Eduard Dyckman
Software Engineer

Anastasia Sushko
Business Operations Manager

Diana Sikorskaya
People Partner

Nikita Kalyanov
Backend Engineer

Joonas Koivunen
Software Engineer

Vadim Kharitonov
Head of Product Engineering

Christian Schwarz
Systems Software Engineer

Mahmoud Abdelwahab
Developer Advocate

Tom Parandyk
Product Designer

Rahul Patil
Site reliability engineer

Sasha Krassovsky
Software Engineer

Gleb Novikov
Backend Engineer

Cihan Demirci
Site Reliability Engineer

George Marcus
Software Engineer

Mark Novikov
Backend Engineer


Tristan Partin
Software Engineer

Lachezar Petkov
Product Designer

Nikolai Rekubratskii
Data Engineer

Arpad Müller
Systems Software Engineer

Conrad Ludgate
Systems Software Engineer

Amit Dahan
Frontend Engineer

Adi Griever
Backend Engineer

Mike Jerome
Technology Product Manager

Yanic Motte
Technical Support Engineer

Alla Tumarkina
Technical Support Engineer

John Spray
Systems Software Engineer

Alec Williamson
Backend Engineer

Busra Demir
Security Engineer

Ilia Lebedev
Frontend Engineer

Emīls Pauls Eglītis
Revenue Operations Specialist

Hayla Westhead
Lead Legal Counsel

Barry Grenon
Technical Writer

Enes Ozcan
Backend Engineer

Shridhar Deshmukh
Frontend Engineer

Muhammet Yazici
Backend Engineer

Roman Zaynetdinov
Backend Engineer

Peter Bendel
Postgres Performance Engineer

Egle Matuzeviciute
Lead Billing Operations Specialist

Oleg Vasilev
Software Engineer

Arjun Rajeswaran
Head of Partnerships

Vlad Lazar
Systems Software Engineer

Stefan Radig
Engineering Manager

Carlota Soto
Product Marketing Lead

James Broadhead
VP of Engineering

Chi Zhang
Systems Software Engineer

Luke Flanagan
VP of Finance

Tingting Wang
AWS Partner Manager


Alexey Masterov
System QA Engineer

Jere Vaara
Software Engineer

Russ Dias
Full-Stack Engineer

Krzysztof Szafrański
Backend Engineer

Mihai Bojin
Director of Engineering

Brad Van Vugt
Growth Product Manager

Mickaël Carl
Lead of Infra


Erickson Ricci
Technical Support Engineer