Meet the team
behind Ahrefs

We think big, start small, and move fast.

We’re a mix of people from different backgrounds, united by a shared love for technology, problem-solving and a sliiiight inclination towards the unconventional.

Ahrefs’ Singapore headquarters

101
Teammates
22
Locations

Dmytro Gerasymenko

CEO, Founder

Author of idea and founder of Ahrefs. Dmytro performs deep intuitive control on all aspects of Ahrefs innovations and developments. He is the one driving the team, and keeping constant motivation running alive through each and every team member.

business
traveling
globalization
sociology and society development
tennis
nature trekking
skiing

Andrii Antiukhov

Bug Killer

Andrii breathes life into all visual shapes created by Andrey & Max and is in charge of user-friendliness of Ahrefs' interface. He is our tireless worker who makes sure that Ahrefs' services work harmoniously.

psychedelic music and art
healthy lifestyle
bodybuilding
tennis
swimming
cycling
flying kite

Helen Datsenko

Customer Support & Success Specialist

Helen is a dedicated Customer Support team member. She gladly provides assistance to users and enjoys helping them stay abreast of the latest Ahrefs improvements.

reading
music
movies
travel
hiking
cycling
cats

Tim Soulo

CMO, Product advisor

Tim's job is to do everything possible to make more SEOs learn about awesome Ahrefs tools and persuade them to become paid subscribers. His best idea so far was to tattoo an Ahrefs logo on his forehead and submit his selfie to Reddit, but luckily the guys have talked him out of that.

wakeboarding
kitesurfing
MMA
books on marketing

Andrey Kirillov

Designer

Andrey makes complicated things simple and beautiful. He is also interested in everything that happens around.

sports
guitar
hiking
cycling
reading

Nick Churick

Marketer

Nick plays a diverse role within the marketing team, making it challenging to assign a specific title. While ChatGPT suggests he is an SEO Marketing Manager, Nick identifies himself as a Product Marketer. He is the project manager of Ahrefs SEO Toolbar, a contributor to the Ahrefs blog, an educator, and occasionally a technical SEO.

sailing
reading
cuesports
rock music
table tennis

Liubomyr Mykhalchenko

Frontend Developer

Liubomyr is a frontend developer focusing in developing rich web applications. He enjoys the challenges of solving uncommon problems and does things that matter.

running
swimming
exploring new places

Helen Stark

Marketer

Helen is a content marketer and outreach specialist at Ahrefs. One day, she gave up academe for all-things marketing. Coffee drinker, rock-n-roll listener, heavy book reader, truth-seeker, and avid traveller. Extremely self-demanding in every aspect of her life.

reading
cooking
swimming
photography
cats
quizzes
movies

Loveme Felicilda

Data Scientist

Develops data mining tools and machine learning algorithms from Ahrefs' big data. Always on the lookout for new data science techniques. Loves to travel and seek new adventures.

hiking
traveling
extreme sports
AI

Bryan Chen

Frontend Developer

Passionate about software development from a very young age. Enjoys keeping up with technology trends, but finds there are just too many. Loves volunteering at the local church.

football
cooking
reading
running
photography
long random walks

Si Quan

Marketer & Customer Success Manager

Everything marketing @ Ahrefs. When SQ isn't writing, he can be found reading, breakdancing or trying random life experiments. He also has a dream to visit at least 100 countries in his lifetime.

reading
breakdancing
travelling
experimenting

Maychelle Ramos

Director of HR & Business

The Tech Minimalist who brings order to chaos.

reading
interior design
badminton
minimalism

Vasilis Papavasileiou

Backend Developer

Vasilis is a member of the backend team. He enjoys applying advanced programming techniques to real-world problems.

photography
politics
cinema
literature

George Dolgikh

Marketer

George is lucky enough to transform his hobbies into professions. Marketer and SEO geek on workdays, photographer on weekends and a dad 24/7, he is most happy when he is pedalling through a forest with headphones on.

rock music
photography
cycling
CrossFit
knife sharpening

Egor Chemokhonenko

Frontend Developer

Egor is fascinated by React & Reason ML combination that summoned him from the Ruby world.

freediving
free software
fantasy worlds

Julia Panchuk

Customer Support & Success Specialist

Whenever you have a question about Ahrefs™ functionality, Julia is the one to go to. She'll make sure you have the smoothest experience of using our product. Julia is also super-passionate about all the French things you can possibly think of, from croissant to Louvre.

France
reading
eating
poetry
impressionism

Damon Breeden

Data Center Engineer

Damon is a systems engineer with a focus on automating-all-the-things, hence DevOps was a natural evolution. When he's not working he can be found cycling through the Andes mountains in his adopted home of Ecuador.

cycling
hiking
travelling
coffee lover
ukulele player

Natasha Pechena

Customer Support & Success Specialist

Natasha loves people and communicating with them, finding solutions, helping find answers to their questions.

fitness
psychology
traveling
skiing
free-diving
reading

Daria Samokish

PR & Communications Specialist

Daria is connecting top media journalists with great stories to help more people in SEO and digital marketing become aware of professional SEO toolset as a technology and as a business. Daria's words appeared on Forbes, Wired, TechRadar, and other 100+ media across the globe.

horseback riding
old Italian films
Indie music

Xiaohong Li

Data Scientist

Xiaohong loves steamboats and enjoys spending time with her family. She hopes to get a PhD in the near future if there's an opportunity or will probably get it together with her son, 20 years from now.

yoga
steamboat

Mateusz Makosiewicz

Marketer

Mateusz has been acquiring his marketing experience from many sources, from agencies to SaaS and hardware businesses. Now, he contributes to helping the Ahrefs community excel at SEO and marketing. Constantly busy reading, writing and making music. Loves long walks and car trips with his wife.

reading
writing
music
long walks
car trips
meditation

Sergey Svetlichnyy

Frontend Developer

He loves programming and his wife. Nothing else matters.

science fiction
problem solving
movies

Igor Gorbenko

Marketer

Igor is a marketer on a mission to gain first-hand experience in all types of marketing. Currently running the partnership program at Ahrefs, mastering communication, influencer marketing, brand management, and loving it.

sim racing
motorsport
guerrilla marketing
satire books

Gerwyn Ng

Data Scientist

Gerwyn is trying to build a model to generate his own bio.

reading
music
coffee
road trips

Fedor Semenov

Frontend Developer

Fedor is a frontend developer, who likes to build apps and work with UI, inspired by functional programming, static types, and ReasonML.

reading
family
hiking
guitar

Chris Haines

Senior SEO Specialist

Chris is a Senior SEO Specialist from London who brings 10 years of agency experience to the team. When not involved in SEO, he enjoys messing around with vintage synthesizers, walks on sandy beaches, occasional hiking, and a good cup of tea.

cycling
learning Korean
experimenting
writing
family
cats

Ben Schinn

Frontend Developer

Often tends to be a "jack of all trades, master of none". Devoted learner. Outside of programming, currently learning to play the clarinet and how to throw clay on a wheel.

cooking
baking
climbing
traveling

Quinn Mazza

Customer Support & Success Specialist

Uses experience in ambiguity to drive success and provide friendly support. When he's not working, he's always learning something.

Food
Surfing
MMA
Caffeine
Motorcycles

Michal Janek

Frontend Developer

Michal embraces personal growth and balance. Engaged in running, yoga, and video games, he savours moments of peace and quiet while concentrating on continuous self-improvement — levelling up in real life!

yoga
running
video games
fantasy books

Ben Monopoli

Recruiter

("Recruiter" AND "Ahrefs Talent" AND ("SEO" OR "Search Engine Optimization") AND ("Tech" OR "Technology") AND ("Computer Science*") AND ("Sourcing" OR "Talent Mapping" OR "Process Improvement" OR "Candidate Experience" OR "Tools")) AND NOT ("Telemarketing" NEAR/5 "Sales")

coffee
rock climbing
cricket
travel
cinema
reading

Sander Spies

Frontend Developer

A pragmatic Software Engineer who likes to create great products for end users with the help of the super powers of OCaml. In his free time he loves to spend time together with his loved ones.

family
traveling
movies
running
coffee
food

Nyi Nyi Than

Frontend Developer

Nyi Nyi is a passionate software developer who is dedicated to achieving excellence in crafting clean, efficient, reliable, and maintainable code. He is particularly fascinated with coding in statically typed programming languages that embrace Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) and Pattern Matching.

movies
classical music
games
cooking

Christopher Winter

Backend Developer

Prioritizes good food and clean code, maybe in that order.

reading
rock climbing
food
hiking
travel

Despina Gavoyannis

Senior SEO Specialist

Despina is a Senior SEO Consultant with 8+ years of experience growing B2B, e-commerce, SaaS, and national brands. She's an optimist at heart, taking time to enjoy life's silver linings each day.

humanity
reading
traveling
sociology
rock music
education
sharing happiness
feel good vibes

Igor Pikovets

CTO, Bug Breeder

A real heavy lifter of our team and one of the first members to join Dmytro in building Ahrefs. He architects the core of storage and crawler systems and guides all backend development, ensuring that correlation is not confused for causation. He is passionate about (Meta)OCaml and is constantly looking for top developers to strengthen our team (HINT: drop him a note!). PS: he also thinks Dlang is cute.

guitar
go (weiqi)
hiking
bouldering

Raman Varabets

Bug Researcher

Yet another chief programmer in our small group of high-class devs responsible for system's core. Raman invariably takes and solves problems that require in-depth and attentive approach. Our API development is completely his terrain.

cyberpunk movies
car models
travelling
swimming
dogs
cats

Handy

Handyman of the Web

Handy's mission is to develop, maintain and enhance Ahrefs website. He is a beach lover. If he weren't a developer, Handy would like to become a time traveller. He completed his first half-marathon for the very first time in December 2013.

traveling
beach

Joris Giovannangeli

SRE Lead

I don't have a bio. I'm a robot.

Grégoire Lionnet

Backend Developer

Always goes for the best in everything he touches. As a programmer, this led him to OCaml.

skiing
skating
food
craft beer
music
hiking

Joshua Hardwick

Head of Content

Joshua is a small man (5'3") with a big heart. A heart for content, that is. He spends most of his days writing for the Ahrefs blog. His nights are spent drinking craft beer while watching Columbo. One more thing: his wife loves him (not really—he doesn't have a wife).

red wine
craft beer
columbo
food

Dmytro Babin

Frontend Developer

Dmytro tries to make Ahrefs tools faster and more user-friendly by applying modern technologies. Believes that teamwork is the foundation of any successful project. Likes seafood, original Vietnamese coffee, computer games and high speed driving.

traveling
reading
driving

Pavel Antoshkin

Frontend Developer

All we can say about him at this time is that he's too lazy busy to write his own short bio.

Sam Oh

VP of Marketing

Sam is a tactical all-in-one marketer and digital strategist. He helps Ahrefs create educational videos and develop creative marketing strategies. Sam has a lot of crazy ideas. Occasionally, they work.

golf
scalable systems
customer acquisition

Dania Elcock

Customer Support & Success Specialist

Dania genuinely loves Customer Support, which comes naturally to her; and so has a great time assisting and calming users of Ahrefs with any concerns that arise.

hiking
swimming
horses
dogs
family

Feihong Hsu

Frontend Developer

Comes from the world of Python and JS, now discovering the power of statically-typed functional programming in OCaml. Likes to create software that solves specific problems.

dragon boat meetups
comics
juggling
teaching
 汉字

Ksenia Erulevich

Typeface & Graphic Designer

Ksenia is the author of the Ahrefs font and looks after the company’s visual identity. She loves vector graphics, letters, and illustration.

japanese design
travelling
museums
coffee
modern art

Javier Chavarri

Frontend Developer

Javier believes that software engineering is as much as about humans (or more) than it is about computers. Passionate about software architecture, user interfaces, digital art and foreign languages.

traveling
economics
philosophy
music
science

Steven Zheng

Customer Support & Success Specialist

Steven is passionate about customer success and building long term beneficial relationships with key customers. He is into various food options and traveling. Food exploration is always in his mind, so much so that he finds it as a good excuse to stay in Singapore for a long time.

food
travelling
movie
Ping-Pong
jogging

Oleksiy Golovko

Backend Developer

Loves challenging engineering problems and finds OCaml to be very helpful in solving those!

literature
mountain hiking
tennis
Italian food & wine

Patrick Stox

Product Advisor, Technical SEO, & Brand Ambassador

A "truly technical SEO", Patrick creates content to help people understand how things work and dreams of building tools to make everyone's lives easier.

SEO
cats
coffee
craft beer
food
tennis

Novi Cokro

QA Engineer

Novi loves exploring how Ahrefs works and helps ensure our product consistently meet high quality standards.

reading
writing
photography
videography
traveling

Mauricio Fernandez

Backend Developer

Mauricio actually rode camels in his early teens, which might explain why years later he felt so comfortable with the Bactrian kind. His beverage of choice was Sencha tea, but he quit caffeine long ago and now runs on oatmeal.

sauna
weight & endurance training
minimalistic food
geopolitics
looking after Taiko
the wise rabbit

Nikita Sych

Video Editing & Production

He is interested in everything related to video, from filming to post-production. In his spare time, he plays the guitar and take pictures. Nah, actually he just sleeps.

graphics
music
study
shooting

Leila Nazari

Head of Enterprise Strategy

Enjoys helping companies ideate, stand out, and grow. Has an affinity for organized chaos and off the wall, big ideas. Leila is convinced she was in the circus in her past life.

bouldering
writing
psychology
red wine
art

Rebecca Liew

Marketer

Rebecca is a bit of a daydreamer, and enjoys fussing needlessly over sentence structures. Content marketing is her jam but she also loves stationery, illustrating, and problem-solving.

writing
art
hiking
coffee
electronic music

Hairus Jaffar

DC Technician

tech support [tek suh-pohrt]. I used to hold on to the saying that “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”. But then I learned that it is better to fix things proactively before they even break down.

food
travel
soccer
family time

Xibeijia Guan

Data Scientist

Xibeijia likes to explore the unknown world and make a difference.

badminton
tennis
diving
travelling
food

Ruslan Hryhoriev

Frontend Developer

Passionate about writing clean, readable, and reusable codes. Ruslan is interested in building web applications with any technology.

coffee
food
programming
boxing

Rob Delory

Enterprise Account Executive

Sales professional with over fifteen years of experience in digital marketing working for agencies and helping SAAS and Enterprise companies to achieve their goals through SEO. Has worked with the Ahrefs platform for ten years in his career and now he gets to show marketing teams why Ahrefs is the best platform available.

barbecue
affiliate marketing
my dog
classical music

Andrey Popp

Backend Developer

Software engineer with a passion for functional, array and query languages.

chess
hiking

Cherry Langcaon

Accountant

Cherry is in charge of Ahrefs' bookkeeping and global sales tax compliance. When not working, she enjoys her regular dose of people-watching, in between reading whodunits & watching true crime.

whodunits
true crime
people-watching

Olaf Behrendt

Data Scientist

A mathematician and expert in web search technology, he excels in interdisciplinary engineering with a strong programming background. Balancing his intellectual pursuits, he finds solace and exhilaration in  freediving, exploring the depths and finding inspiration beneath the waves.

Bryce Nichols

Backend Developer

Bryce is a developer on the backend team and a fan of OCaml. He enjoys learning how things work with everything from type theory to rock climbing to the universe

Alex Anderson

Enterprise Account Executive

Alex comes from legal background but has been conquering the SaaS world for the past 5 years selling software to Enterprise organisations. In his spare time, he enjoys playing/watching sports, listening to music, travelling and embracing different cultures.

sports
music
traveling
cooking

Rose Paje

Enterprise Accounts Receivable Specialist

Rose believes that a positive attitude can go a long way in building strong client relationships. Her goal is to achieve a happy life that is both fulfilling and balanced.

family
travel
food
photography
music

Vince Tan

Data Scientist

Vince is fascinated by search and the broader challenge of giving people what they want.

reading
learning
food
healthy living
hanging out

Woonha Kim

Mobile Developer

Likes things done smart and clean. Whether he is the same himself is another question.

drumming
skateboarding
cooking
swimming

John Haley

Frontend Co-Lead

John got his chops working on a hand-me-down Commodore 64 with C and Lisp and but loves being in the OCaml/ReasonML world the most. He is passionate about well designed products, functional programming, static typing, category theory, good DX, and making teams the best they can be. Outside of work he's spending time with his 3 dogs, 2 cats, 2 girls, and 1 wife.

music
audio engineering
powerlifting
home servers
cooking
scuba
traveling
video games

Anna Ignatenko

Head of Customer Support

Having spent many years providing support to users at Ahrefs with all her love and attention, Anna is now sharing her knowledge and experience with new and existing support team members to make sure all customers' queries & concerns are well-received and taken care of.

reading
traveling
social
psychology
pilates
fashion
photography

Jerry Maala

The Resident QA Ninja aka Bug Hunter

Jerry ensures that Ahrefs products are fit for use and have a high standard of quality.

gastronomy
basketball
beach
diving
skiing
reading
world history

Max Li Bin

Frontend Developer

Max loves the web and builds websites for both the eyes and fingers. He is excited about new technologies on the web that make our life easier and our environment better. Max couldn't imagine what he would do if he weren't a front-end developer. A travel buff, he will pack and go whenever he can.

travel
travel
and travel

Sergey Mezhuev

Video Editing & Production

Sergey is our video wizard. All the amazing videos you see on our YouTube channel would be impossible without him. Likes to play his PS4 when he isn't busy being the best husband and father in the Universe.

self-education
gaming
Netflix

Louis Roché

Middle-end Lead

Devout of the Great Compiler, believer of Types, evangeliser of OCaml. Free Software advocate.

sports
politics
functional programming
education

Fedor Fokin

Designer

Digital designer with a psychological background interested in art, philosophy, and science. He likes to analyze and synthesize, explore new and dive into familiar, and 42.

humanity
time
information
nature
artifacts

May Soon

Customer Support & Success Specialist

Focused on delivering success and happiness, one customer at a time. Has a penchant for tea, travel and living in a beautiful state.

travel
swimming
music
dogs
lifehacking
tea
sauvignon blanc
reading

Rebekah Bek

Product Marketer

Developing content to help you understand, navigate, and love using Ahrefs.

aerial sports
cats
pilates
reading
video games

Rusty Key

Frontend Tech Lead

Helps to create fast and intuitive web interfaces. He has recently become a ReasonML enthusiast which made his life quite typed.

music making
football
all kinds of boards
coffee

Szabolcs Fazekas

Infrastructure Engineer

Szabolcs likes professional challenges, puzzle-solving and learning something new every day. Hence, becoming a DevOps engineer was only natural.

city exploring
nature hiking
video games
tech news
movies

Sergey Deykin

Designer

Sergey is passionate about illustration. He likes to meet new people and learn new things. Passionate about Japanese cars and tattoos. Also, he can draw you a bunny.

music
cars
beer
yellow rubber ducks

Lucy Nagorna

Customer Support & Success Specialist

Lucy is a caring customer support specialist. She likes talking to Ahrefs customers about their user experience but doesn't really like to speak about herself.

yoga
hiking
reading
healthy lifestyle
photography

Yura Yeromenko

Designer

All he does is determine what is important and make it exciting. His passion is useful, honest and informative products that make people more productive, smart and happy.

psychology
reading
wine
indie games
powerlifting

Clare Hoang

Customer Support & Success Specialist

Clare likes making everything as efficient, effective, and equitable as possible. She genuinely loves troubleshooting and is excited about rejoining the team helping users of Ahrefs when they need support. Clare is thrilled to bring her experience from both agency and client sides in delivering customer happiness.

cooking
baking
reading
travelling
coffee
movies
yoga
healthy lifestyle
family

Erik Sarissky

Marketer

Travel and food enthusiast. Erik is somewhere around the world all the time. A retired DJ by profession, he now focuses on being an experienced SEO specialist by helping people deal with their daily struggles in the SEO world.

football
TRX
technology
reading
music

Yuliya Pass

Customer Support & Success Specialist

Yuliya is a happy wife and mother of two kids. She loves to communicate with people in life and at work.

travel

Denis Strelkov

Frontend Developer

Enjoys writing code and solving problems with OCaml/ReScript mixed with DDD approach and testing. He is sure that there is no way back to unsafe languages after you get into the statically typed FP world.

spicy foods
guitars
bicycling
hiking
self-education

Anton Zhukov

Product Designer & Manager

Designed this page.

motorsports
cycling
surfing
sim racing
3D
indie dev

Xinyu Luo

Backend Developer

Enjoys learning programming techniques and applying them in problem solving.

aerial
nature

Constance Tan

Product Marketer

Constance is devoted to improving the value that users of software can experience. She enjoys trying new things, and learning about the many ways software eats the world.

swimming
yoga
cooking
digital art

David Sancho

Frontend Developer

He's a Software Engineer from Barcelona. Passionate about functional programming, design, scalability, people and start-ups. Aside from the computer, he loves endurance sports, mostly triathlon.

run
bike
open-source
web
reason

Yasunari Watanabe

Backend Developer

Develops software tools, both internal and external. Enjoys skiing but realizes he should acquire hobbies better suited for the tropics. Currently learning to scuba dive.

cold milk
cold winters
hot baths

Efim Mirochnik

DC Operations Lead

Efim cares about Ahrefs’ data centers, servers and network. He likes to find other people’s mistakes and doesn’t like to make his own ones.

traveling
reading
driving

Elliott Cable

Middle-end Developer

The 𝑛th OCamleer at Ahrefs, Elliott’s passionate about programming-language design, tooling, and usability/ developer-experience (with any luck, he’s here to make everyone else on this page calmer, happier, and healthier!). After work, he’s usually walking his dog(s), working on open-source OCaml-universe tooling, or neck-deep in Civilization, Rimworld, or Oxygen Not Included.

video games that are basically spreadsheets
dogs
ham radio
mental health advocacy
road trips
hiking
conservation

Andrei Țiț

Marketer

Shows how Ahrefs' latest features work. Mostly through product updates and how-to videos; but also webinars, articles, and brochures. Wants to retire as a radio host someday.

food
manga
snowboarding
surfing
gym

Leonardo Thiago

Frontend Developer

Rescued from the JS/TS land after taking the reason pill. Enjoying the camel ride.

Football
Weight Training
Classical Guitar
Homesteading
Natural Languages
Debates

Rytis Jonynas

Backend Developer

Backend Engineer who believes that a camel ride isn't about comfort or style, it's about getting you there, bumps and all.

skiing
waters ports
reading
italo disco

Corentin Leruth

Middle-end Developer

Corentin is a middle-end developer with a background in building web applications using TypeScript and React. He has recently been captivated by the power of functional programming and OCaml, and is always seeking new ways to improve his craft. In his free time, he enjoys contributing to open source projects and playing padel, a sport that challenges him both mentally and physically.

OCaml
React
open source
Padel

Ted Lindblom

Enterprise Account Executive

Ted absolutely loves chatting with people and helping big companies and agencies make smart moves using Ahrefs' big data. When he's not busy talking, you'll catch him rocking beach volleyball games, exploring new places, and pursuing novel experiences (okay, let's be real, these things usually come with more talking!).

SEO
volleyball
traveling
beer
hiking
reading

Shermin Lim

Events Marketing Manager

Creative girl at heart, and event manager by profession. Shermin helps run in-person events for Ahrefs in Singapore & APAC, currently in her dream job in the digital marketing industry. Everywhere she goes, she spreads sparkle and sunshine!

food
photography
travel
camping
road cycling
water sports
volunteering

Byron Karuppiah

General Counsel

Byron collaborates with the various teams to smoothen out legal risk as well as contributes legal input for strategic decisions. He ended up at Ahrefs in a roundabout fashion, starting off with practising international law, then negotiating Free Trade Agreements for Singapore, before deciding to be part of the tech future.

wine
food
mountains
meandering conversations

Alexandre Bourquelot

Backend Developer

In a complex love-hate relationship with Python, he ultimately embraced D development. His ultimate ambition is to experience every gastronomic delight known to mankind.

coffee
rock climbing
cooking
learning languages

Sewen Thy

Backend Developer

He somehow ended up in a camel sanctuary and loving it.

coffee
wine
whiskey
walks
civilization 6

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