Kevin Sookocheff
Principal Software Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering at Workiva
Canada
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Top SchoolKevin Sookocheff is a Principal Software Engineer and cloud-native architect with 15+ years of experience building and leading infrastructure, platform, and messaging systems at scale. Based in Canada, he currently leads Kubernetes/AWS platform engineering and compliance (FedRAMP, SOC-2) at Workiva after directing their architecture and shaping a three-year technology strategy and standards for 300+ engineers. He’s an API and messaging specialist who designed high-throughput pub/sub systems, analytics pipelines, and developer platforms that process millions of messages daily. A passionate teacher, speaker, and writer on distributed systems and cloud computing, he also runs online under the handle soofaloofa and blends deep systems engineering with practical governance and developer productivity improvements.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (73)
hugo-theme10
rest-api10
concurrency10
forestry10
codegen10
thrift10
pubsub10
rest9
api9
swagger-ui9
hugo9
swagger9
oas9
openapi9
java9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kevinsookocheff-wf/frugal
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
Thrift improved
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
javaimprovedthrift
soofaloofa/dotfiles
Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:20 pushes in 11 months
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