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<title>Andriy Novykov</title>
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<name>Andriy Novykov</name>
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<p>Senior software engineer specializing in systems observability, security, and infrastructure for AI research.</p>
<p>Most recently Co-founder & CTO at Aethra Labs (YC W26), where I built an eBPF-based AI agent monitoring platform and telemetry analysis stack for frontier-model evaluations.</p>
<p>Previously led infrastructure for the Center for AI Safety's 256-GPU research cluster and WekaFS deployment supporting high-impact ML safety research.</p>
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<a href="https://github.com/AndriyNovykov/">GitHub</a>  / 
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<p style="text-align:center">San Francisco Bay Area</p>
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<strong>Aethra Labs (YC W26) San Francisco & Berkeley, CA</strong><br>
Co-founder & CTO July 2025 – December 2025
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<li>Architected a system-level AI agent monitoring platform using eBPF (libbpf) to capture kernel-level traces (file I/O, network, process trees) with <3% CPU overhead, providing auditability independent of agent state.</li>
<li>Built a high-throughput telemetry ingestion and visualization stack (Python, TypeScript, Docker) that transformed raw system events into forensic-style replays for investigation of complex agent behavior.</li>
<li>Engineered AI-based trajectory monitors that automatically flagged suspicious or misaligned behavior and integrated them into real-time analysis pipelines for continuous safety evaluation.</li>
<li>Deployed privileged observability daemons inside Redwood Research evaluation environments, attaching to target PIDs to capture ground-truth runtime behavior for safety-critical model testing.</li>
<li>Executed a 24-hour rapid deployment of red-team infrastructure for xAI Grok evaluations, utilizing a LiteLLM proxy and OpenWebUI to enable structured interaction and centralized logging.</li>
<li>Raised $700,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator and prominent angels, including Geoff Ralston.</li>
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<strong>The Center for AI Safety (CAIS)</strong><br>
Lead Infrastructure Engineer February 2023 – July 2025
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<li>Owned infrastructure for a GPU cluster for ML research (OCI, Slurm) with 256 GPUs and a distributed parallel filesystem (WekaFS), supporting 125+ papers and 16,000+ citations; $3.5M+ annual budget.</li>
<li>Led deployment of converged 200TB WekaFS, reducing storage cost/GB by 90% for $900k+ in annual cost savings.</li>
<li>Mitigated EOL risks and enabled modern containerization and WekaFS support by executing a full cluster OS migration to Ubuntu 22.04, rewriting Ansible automation and migrating 200TB and 150M+ files.</li>
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<strong>Bidtellect (acquired by Simpli.fi)</strong><br>
Platform Software Engineer June 2020 – February 2023
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<li>Powered a platform processing 6B+ daily auction requests by building, debugging, and maintaining RESTful APIs, ETL pipelines, and SQL/NoSQL data systems.</li>
<li>Audited and optimized 700+ SQL queries, removed dead queries, and cut user login latency by 50% (6s to 3s) by improving a cache-loading query.</li>
<li>Supported team execution as Scrum Lead by scheduling ceremonies, unblocking engineers, and tracking sprint delivery.</li>
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<strong>Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging</strong><br>
Research Assistant / Electrical Engineer September 2018 – June 2020
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<li>Designed and built an advanced neural recording apparatus (tetrode drive) improving reliability and performance compared to conventional electrodes.</li>
<li>Tested wireless neural recording devices and recorded rodent motor cortex activity to study the relationship between neural signals and motor movement for movement-prediction modeling.</li>
<li>Secured $5,500 in research grants.</li>
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<heading>Technical Skills</heading>
<p><strong>Systems & Security:</strong> Linux Kernel, eBPF (libbpf), System Instrumentation, Tamper-Resistant Telemetry, Perf Profiling</p>
<p><strong>Infrastructure & DevOps:</strong> Slurm, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Nix, WekaFS, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics</p>
<p><strong>Cloud & Data:</strong> Oracle Cloud (OCI), AWS, GCP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, NoSQL, High-Throughput ETL</p>
<p><strong>Languages:</strong> Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Bash, C/C++, C#, Java</p>
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<p><strong>University of Denver</strong><br>Denver, CO<br>Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering</p>
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