Stas Kelvich is a co-founder of Neon, Inc., where work commenced in March 2021. Previously, Stas served as a software engineer at Yandex from April 2020 to March 2021, contributing to the Yandex database team. Stas's experience also includes a significant tenure at Postgres Professional as a software engineer focused on Postgres clustering and fault-tolerant replication from March 2015 to April 2020, as well as a researcher role at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, where contributions included developing analytical descriptions for multiphoton ionization processes and co-authoring articles in Physical Review A. Stas co-founded Mimimir, an online shop and search engine for package tours, and has held various software development positions across multiple organizations, starting as a server administrator at McHosting. Stas holds a master’s degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics and a bachelor’s degree from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI.