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San Francisco, California
100–200 employees

Wallarm (YC S16) is a series C cybersecurity startup protecting more than 20,000 applications with its API security platform. It sits in front of clients’ apps, analyzes every incoming request, and blocks malicious traffic in real time.

$75M
total funding
20K+
Protected apps and APIs

For Wallarm, Evil Martians migrated their large-volume core event pipeline from NATS to Kafka with zero downtime, fixed event duplication in ClickHouse, and built internal tools for API traffic analysis.

Martian project team

  • Alexander Baygeldin profile pic

    Alexander Baygeldin

    Backend engineer

  • Igor Platonov pic

    Igor Platonov

    Backend engineer

  • Andrey Novikov

    Andrey Novikov

    Backend Engineer

  • Anton Senkovskiy pic

    Anton Senkovskiy

    Account Manager

Why Wallarm hired Evil Martians

With Black Friday on the horizon, the timeline wasn’t flexible. Wallarm’s traffic was growing across 20,000+ protected applications, and the team needed to migrate from NATS to managed Kafka without pulling engineers off the core product. Wallarm brought in Evil Martians to run the migration.

Engineering teams are often thinly spread, making it impossible for them to step out of their core responsibilities. Hiring isn’t always the right choice. Wallarm needed senior engineers who could jump in and solve these problems fast, whether the pipeline ran at 3,000 or 30,000 RPS.

Part I: cleaning up ClickHouse and removing duplicates

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