Michajlo Matijkiw
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichajlo Matijkiw is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance, concurrent systems and solving low-level debugging challenges. Based in New York and currently at Google since 2015, he has a strong track record designing scalable back-end infrastructure and optimizing JVM-heavy services for throughput and low-latency operation. His work at Comcast produced an open-source Paxos-based distributed system and custom persisted storage with constant-time access, and he led platform and team efforts at AppNexus before joining Google. An active contributor to the widely used Bazel build system, he has improved cycle detection, file processing, and remote artifact handling—demonstrating attention to both algorithmic correctness and operational robustness. He combines deep systems thinking with pragmatic engineering—often focusing on subtle performance and GC tuning that most teams overlook.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Science Engineering, BSE, Computer Science Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (8)
javas10
build-system10
java10
computer-engineering9
concurrency8
performance-optimization8
testing7
python6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/bazel
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 473 commits, 150 comments in 8 years
Contributions summary:Michajlo primarily worked on improving the build system for Bazel. Their contributions focused on refactoring code related to cycle detection, including the refactoring of cycle related skyvalues to use a shared empty value and adding support for more granular control in the system. They also worked on streamlining features related to the processing and display of various file contents and build-related configurations. Additionally, they enhanced the build process by handling HTTP redirects correctly in order to facilitate interaction with off-host systems.
scalablecorrectbazelmulti-languagebuild-system
google/guava
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
Google core libraries for Java
Contributions:3 commits in 2 years 2 months
guavajavacore-libraries
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