Michael Kholodov
Senior Software Engineer at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kholodov is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience designing and delivering high-throughput, fault-tolerant systems using Scala, Java, Kafka, AWS, Elastic Search and MS SQL. At NCBI he led a shift from batch to real-time ETL, cutting processing time by 90%, improving uptime to 99.99% and saving over $2M through scalable microservices and heavy SQL optimization. He combines systems-level expertise (C++, JNI, PostgreSQL) with cloud-native architecture and pragmatic operational tooling, including Opsgenie-integrated alerting that reduced response time by 70%. Based in Gaithersburg, MD and trained in physics at MSU, he brings a research-minded approach to production engineering, notable for optimizing large data dumps and search indexes that serve global research communities.
11 years of coding experience
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Github Skills (52)
concurrent10
bit-manipulation10
reactive10
avx10
sparse-matrix10
akka10
bit-array10
bit-vector10
high-performance10
concurrency10
streaming10
associative-array10
jvm9
actor-framework9
java9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
michkhol/trigona-frontend
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:29 PRs, 111 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
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