Michael Koltsov
Technical Owner at Splunk
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Koltsov is a technical owner and cloud-focused engineer with 11+ years building highly available systems across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. He combines deep hands-on expertise in JVM and functional languages (Scala, Java, Clojure) with DevOps and SRE experience—shaping performance at Splunk after leading Java performance work there. An active open-source advocate and long-time contributor (including work on Apache Zeppelin), he also organizes and speaks regularly at conferences and meetups, bridging community and engineering. His background spans data engineering, cloud development, and platform reliability at organizations from William Hill to Luxoft, demonstrating a knack for operationalizing complex distributed systems. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs competitive-programming rigor with a passion for sharing knowledge, which informs both his technical leadership and public speaking. Notably, he has moved between hands-on engineering and leadership roles while maintaining ongoing open-source involvement.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Higher School of EconomicsBachelor's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Iżewsk State Technical University (ISTU)
English, Polish
Github Skills (13)
java10
database10
scala9
nosql9
javascript9
spark9
data-analytics8
big-data8
sql8
authentication4
angularjs4
apache-zeppelin2
analytics1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mkoltsov/scalper
May 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:667 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
mkoltsov/DesignPatterns
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:85 commits, 77 pushes in 6 months
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