Jehiah Czebotar
Principal Platform Engineer
New York, New York, United States
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Top expert inGo Development and Distributed Systems Engineering
Jehiah Czebotar is a Principal Platform Engineer based in New York with 16 years of experience building resilient backend and infrastructure systems. At Bitly since 2015 he combines platform-level leadership with hands-on engineering—designing CI/CD, packaging, and deployment pipelines while contributing core refactors to production services. His open-source work spans high-impact projects like Tornado and NSQ, and includes porting tools to Go, implementing message-handling enhancements, and improving HTTP client robustness. He excels at bridging DevOps and backend concerns, from protocol-level changes in distributed messaging to automating multi-OS builds. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions to hard reliability and performance problems, and his contributions often reveal an emphasis on maintainability and cross-platform operational excellence.
17 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (78)
reverse-proxy10
messaging10
python10
jsonb10
testing10
command-line-interface10
http10
authentication10
message-queue10
automation10
nsq10
file-processing10
client-library10
async10
tornado10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bitly/data_hacks
Sep 2010 - Mar 2018
Command line utilities for data analysis
Role in this project:
Data Engineer & Backend Developer
Data Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 32 commits, 9 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jehiah primarily contributed to developing command-line utilities for data analysis. Their work focused on creating Python scripts to sample data streams, calculate percentiles, and generate histograms. The user also added functionality such as pre-aggregation support, percentage display, and numeric sorting for the bar chart utility, demonstrating a focus on enhancing data analysis and visualization capabilities within the repository. They also refactored and added help documentation across various utilities.
command-linedata-analysis
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.
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