# Yury Izrailevsky

> Yury Izrailevsky is the co-founder and President of Product and Technology at ClickHouse. After helping Yahoo build data systems, leading Netflix's cloud and platform engineering through its cloud-native transformation, and overseeing developer products at Google Cloud, he returned to startup life in 2021. At ClickHouse, he paired with database creator Alexey Milovidov and commercial leader Aaron Katz to turn a widely adopted open-source analytics engine into a managed-cloud company that reported more than 4,000 customers and $250 million in annualized revenue by May 2026.

- **Role:** Co-founder and President of Product and Technology at ClickHouse
- **Organizations:** ClickHouse, Google Cloud, Netflix, Yahoo!
- **Education:** University of Utah
- **Known for:** Helped lead Netflix's shift to cloud-native infrastructure, a program that replaced a monolithic application with hundreds of microservices and supported expansion into more than 130 new countries., Led an engineering organization of about 700 people at Netflix., Oversaw developer platforms, serverless products and developer tools as a Google engineering vice president.

## Career timeline

- **2002** — Worked on Yahoo!'s data warehouse and later on the company's search engine; by 2008 he was identified publicly as director of search engine core.
- **2010** — Joined Netflix and went on to lead cloud computing and platform engineering during the company's cloud-native transformation.
- **2016** — Co-authored Netflix's announcement that its seven-year cloud migration was complete and the last streaming data-center systems had been shut down.
- **2018** — Moved to Google as a vice president of engineering responsible for developer platforms, serverless products, developer tools and parts of the cloud portfolio.
- **2021** — Co-founded ClickHouse with Alexey Milovidov and Aaron Katz and became President of Product and Technology.
- **2025** — Discussed ClickHouse's path from Yandex open-source project to a cloud company serving more than 2,000 customers on the Open Source Startup Podcast.
- **2026** — ClickHouse raised a $400 million Series D at a reported $15 billion valuation, then reported more than 4,000 customers and $250 million in annualized revenue in May.

## Achievements

- Helped lead Netflix's shift to cloud-native infrastructure, a program that replaced a monolithic application with hundreds of microservices and supported expansion into more than 130 new countries.
- Led an engineering organization of about 700 people at Netflix.
- Oversaw developer platforms, serverless products and developer tools as a Google engineering vice president.
- Co-founded ClickHouse, Inc. in 2021 and led product and engineering work around the managed cloud service.
- Helped ClickHouse deliver the generally available version of its cloud product in less than a year.
- Co-authored the peer-reviewed article 'Cloud Reliability' with Charlie Bell in IEEE Cloud Computing in 2018.
- Built ClickHouse's product and technology organization as the company grew to more than 4,000 customers and $250 million in annualized revenue by May 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — ClickHouse launched ClickHouse Labs under database researcher Andy Pavlo; Izrailevsky said the group would test difficult systems ideas against real workloads and share discoveries with the wider community.
- **2026-06** — Appeared at AI Council in San Francisco on a panel about how AI workloads are changing data infrastructure requirements.
- **2026-05** — Told TechCrunch that ClickHouse had crossed $250 million in annualized revenue, was serving more than 4,000 customers and could pursue an IPO within a few years.
- **2026-04** — Spoke with Peak XV and Surge founders about open-source commercialization, ClickHouse Cloud's architecture and his practice of interviewing every new hire.
- **2026-01** — ClickHouse announced a $400 million Series D at a reported $15 billion valuation, alongside the acquisition of Langfuse and the introduction of a native Postgres service.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuryizrailevsky

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Last updated: 2026-09-26