Jehiah Czebotar
Principal Platform Engineer
New York, New York, United States
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Jehiah Czebotar is a Principal Platform Engineer at Bitly with 16 years of experience building backend systems, platform automation, and developer tooling. He blends hands-on backend development and DevOps—implementing CI/CD and cross-platform packaging for statsdaemon, converting json2csv from C to Go, and improving request timing and error handling in Tornado. His open-source work spans high-impact projects like NSQ (go-nsq, nsq, pynsq), Tornado, and a variety of command-line data utilities, reflecting strengths in messaging, async networking, authentication, and CLI UX. Based in New York, he focuses on observability and developer ergonomics, often solving low-level protocol and deployment pain points that quietly improve reliability at scale.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (90)
csvparser10
reverse-proxy10
messaging10
python10
jsonb10
testing10
commandline-interface10
command-line-interface10
http10
authentication10
message-queue10
automation10
nsq10
ci-cd10
commandline10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bitly/oauth2_proxy
Dec 2012 - Mar 2018
A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Github or other provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 207 commits, 170 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jehiah contributed to the initial code import and further developed the core authentication and authorization logic of the `oauth2_proxy`. Their work involved defining structs, methods, and API requests for handling OAuth2 flows, specifically with Google. They also implemented error handling and UI elements for sign-in, showcasing their focus on user authentication within the reverse proxy. The commits include changes to `oauthproxy.go`, `main.go`, `templates.go`, and `htpasswd.go` showing a consistent focus on user authentication with basic and OAuth.
authenticationproviderproxyreverse-proxy
bitly/statsdaemon
Feb 2013 - Jan 2021
an implementation of Etsy's statsd in Go
Role in this project:DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 31 commits, 19 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Jehiah contributed to the build and deployment process, automating the build and distribution of the statsdaemon application. They implemented a CI/CD pipeline, writing scripts to build and package the application for different operating systems and architectures. Additionally, the user made core changes to the main application including refactoring and typo fixes. The user also introduced Go modules and updated the application version information.
golangstatsdetsy
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