Michael Cherkasov
Senior Software Engineer at Workday
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Cherkasov is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade building resilient, multi-region cloud platforms and high-performance distributed systems on Azure and AWS. He specializes in Infrastructure as Code (Bicep & Terraform), Kubernetes microservices, and safe-deployment pipelines that have driven sub-10 ms p99 latencies and 99.99% availability for production services. At Microsoft he led migrations of 20+ services to a region-agnostic Azure platform, created cross-region failover proxies, and authored shared platform tooling that standardized security and observability across teams. His background in low-level Java work at Oracle and in-memory cluster engineering at GridGain gives him deep expertise in performance, concurrency, and operational support for large-scale systems. Based in Redwood City, he blends hands-on implementation with cross-team enablement to reduce rollout risk and accelerate delivery—often automating region provisioning and cutting bad deployment incidents by an order of magnitude.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Volgograd State Technical University
Russian, English
Github Skills (17)
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bitcoin1
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ubuntu1
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ForQuest/TaskCRM
Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 6 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 4 months
ForQuest/openboard
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 5 days
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