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Alexey Milovidov

Алексей Миловидов

Russian creator of ClickHouse — the open-source database powering analytics at Cloudflare, Spotify and thousands of companies

🇳🇱 Fame: Netherlands🇷🇺 Origin: Russia👤 Co‑creator / co‑founder of ClickHouse.mission-mittelstand+1
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Biography

Alexey Milovidovmilovidov with roots in the Russia

Alexey Milovidov is a Russian software engineer and the creator of ClickHouse — the open-source columnar database management system that has become one of the world's most widely used analytics databases. Originally built at Yandex and then open-sourced, ClickHouse is now used by Cloudflare, Spotify, Uber, and thousands of companies globally.

Russian Connection

Tracing the roots — Russia

Born in Russia and educated in the Russian computer science tradition before building ClickHouse at Yandex — Russia's tech giant — Milovidov's work represents Russian software engineering at its most influential. ClickHouse, which processes hundreds of billions of rows per second, is one of the most significant open-source database contributions from the Russian tech ecosystem.

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Alexey Milovidov🇳🇱 Netherlands
Co‑creator / co‑founder of ClickHouse.mission-mittelstand+1
Russian developer
project originated at Yandex.
Origin
Russia🇷🇺 Russia
Historical context
Post-Soviet states · since 1991
Map of the Post-Soviet states

Russia. Today, the former Soviet space comprises fifteen sovereign independent states.

Map: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA)
Key Achievements

A career defined by ambition

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Created ClickHouse — one of the world's fastest analytical databases
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ClickHouse used by Cloudflare, Spotify, Uber, and thousands of global companies
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ClickHouse Inc. spun out of Yandex — raised $250M at $2B valuation (2021)
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Processes hundreds of billions of rows per second
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One of the most influential open-source database engineers in the world
Russian diaspora
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