Why InDrive embraced multicloud but insists on a "one workload, one cloud" approach
If you were asked to name a ride-sharing app handling 300 to 400 thousand transactions per second, you may think of a big company like Uber or Lyft. It would probably take a long time before you realized it was InDrive.
Launched out of Russian port city Yakutsk in 2013, the ride-hailing and delivery company now operates in 48 countries. It has been downloaded around 400 million times, making it one of the most downloaded travel apps, according to SensorTower.
“We’re handling 300-400,000 transactions per second at peaks, so quite a high volume… we have product teams doing around 170 or 200 deployments a day across different geographies,” CTO Yuri Misnik says during a recent chat with The Stack.
After divesting its Russian assets in June 2022 following the invasion of Ukraine, the price-haggling platform is now headquartered in California, with major teams in Kazakhstan and Cyprus. Around 900 of its staff, almost a third of its 3,000-strong workforce, are in the technology department.
Misnik, who joined inDrive in April 2025 after a career including CIO/CTO positions at HSBC and National Australia Bank, manages the tech, data and project management aspects of inDrive’s operations, working with a CPO on more product-oriented projects.
Multicloud, but…
The company takes a multicloud approach to managing its infrastructure, but Misnik says he is a “true believer” in operating under a “one workload, one cloud” regime.
