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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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AncestryCo‑creator / co‑founder of ClickHouse.mission-mittelstand+1Russian developer; project originated at
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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 rootsRussia

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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