OpenMetal Team Member

Yuriy Shyyan

Director, Cloud Systems Architecture

Yuriy is the embodiment of self-determination. He has aspirations and he plans to achieve them. His secret? He learns from every job, project, and experience provided to him. And Yuriy has had no shortage of experience to this point.

Like most, Yuriy started working odd jobs early on. At 15 years old he was walking to his job as a bagger at Kroger, with the occasional risks of grabbing carts during hurricane conditions. He also did pizza delivery, worked retail, was a janitor at a bakery, did door to door cutlery sales, and even worked in telephone marketing. His take away from these roles was that they soundly taught him what he didn’t want to do.

Yuriy learned early on that most learning and strengthening happens when you learn how not to do something in the process. Some call it failing, he calls it learning.

Fortunately, introduction to computers came early, when as a kid he got to experience a game called Prince of Persia. Later on some Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and much later, Diablo 2. In late teens, he had a home computer with Windows 98 that allowed him to run forums for game guilds, build spreadsheets, and be a part of the America Online experience. Despite having limited financial capacities, Yuriy was determined to learn how to engineer solutions via technology to access things he wanted. Regardless, Yuriy knew that he would work with software and computers from pretty early on.

With fundamental Computer Science classes under his belt, Yuriy started his “real” professional career at InMotion Hosting, the parent company of OpenMetal. At InMotion, he quickly learned that he could earn a living through knowledge. Moreso, he learned that the more knowledge he gained, the more earning capacity he had.

Today Yuriy puts his determination into action, helping on infrastructure architecture, engineering projects and deployment automation where he can help others gain lasting effects on their future outcomes and target goals. Like most engineers, Yuriy is driven by the desire to not only build a perfect solution “fit” to customer challenges, but to have those solutions bring significant impact and value to the top or bottom line.

His process is simple. While he works, he sets the volume of his music player to a mathematically pleasing value that is divisible by 4, excluding numbers ending in 0. It is not uncommon for Yuriy to then listen to the same song on repeat hours on end for up to a week without tiring until he arrives at the conclusions of his project at hand.

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