Vlad Shcherbinin

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Vlad Shcherbinin — technology leader, writer, builder.

Two decades across four countries, one recurring obsession with systems that actually work.

You Can't Optimize What You Don't Understand How to Wreck
Jun 05, 2026

You Can't Optimize What You Don't Understand How to Wreck

The SQL Server Internals interactive drills are live — on-disk structures, I/O mechanics, optimizer behavior, execution plans.

engineeringdatabasesSQL Server
Back in the Trenches, Part 2: Make It Talk
Apr 26, 2026 Back in the Trenches

Back in the Trenches, Part 2: Make It Talk

Building the full pipeline — from Twilio call ingestion to LLM causal reasoning — to extract why a changepoint happened, not just when.

engineeringAI/MLTypeScriptTwilio
Back in the Trenches, Part 1: Karaul!
Apr 07, 2026 Back in the Trenches

Back in the Trenches, Part 1: Karaul!

On returning to hands-on engineering — building a TypeScript changepoint detection library from first principles while running a technology organization.

engineeringTypeScriptAI/MLleadership
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Vlad Shcherbinin