Iryna Shustava
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolIryna Shustava is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient backend and DevOps tooling for cloud-native platforms, now contributing at Netflix after senior engineering roles at HashiCorp, Salesforce, and Pivotal. She has deep hands-on experience with distributed systems and service mesh technologies, notably contributing infrastructure, CI/CD, and build tooling to HashiCorp’s widely used Consul and consul-k8s projects. Comfortable across backend, testing, and automation, she has improved TLS rollout docs, implemented traffic-redirection features, and strengthened test-server performance and security. Her career blends production engineering with QA and automation expertise, reflected in contributions to CF acceptance tests and complex CI/Terraform integrations. Based in Littleton, Colorado, she pairs an EECS degree from UC Berkeley with a pragmatic, documentation-minded approach to shipping reliable systems. Colleagues describe her as motivated, curious, and unusually effective at bridging developer experience, release engineering, and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Santa Monica College
English, Russian, German
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Github Skills (19)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
cloud-foundry10
testing10
web-deploy10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
consul10
go10
helm10
web-deployment10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
docker9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul-k8s
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
First-class support for Consul Service Mesh on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:980 reviews, 523 commits, 337 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Iryna primarily contributed to the infrastructure and build support for the `consul-k8s` project. Their work included updating the Go version used, releasing new versions of the project, and adding and refining the CI/CD configuration using CircleCI and Terraform. Furthermore, the user made changes related to build scripts, copying binaries, and incorporating external tools such as Terraform into the build process.
meshhelmconsul-servicehelm-chartvault
hashicorp/consul
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:372 reviews, 74 commits, 173 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Iryna's commits primarily focused on improving the documentation and functionality of Consul, a distributed service mesh. They contributed documentation updates for rolling out TLS on Kubernetes and using Connect CA providers with Helm. The user also implemented new features, such as a command for applying traffic redirection rules when Transparent Proxy is enabled, and made changes to the SDK to improve the performance of test servers. Additionally, the user addressed security concerns with auth methods.
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