Mik Kocikowski
Systems Architect Senior Software Engineer at Peak Unicorn Consulting
Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolMik Kocikowski is a systems architect and senior software engineer with over two decades of coding experience and 13 years focused on distributed data and infrastructure at companies like Peak Unicorn Consulting, Target, and Quid. He designs, automates, and secures data processing pipelines (including HIPAA and PCI compliance) and then actually implements them—working across IaC, containers, streaming, search, and databases. His toolkit spans Python, Go, Java, Ansible, Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), reflecting a hands-on architect who still ships code. At Target he built parts of the data bus for personalization; at Quid he led a team building a backend-agnostic RESTful document store and stateless worker pool before modern streaming frameworks matured. Based in Karnataka, India, Mik’s superpower is simplifying complexity—turning sprawling architectures into pragmatic, automated systems. He runs Peak Unicorn Consulting where he combines consulting, tooling and engineering to make large-scale data systems reliable and auditable.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Deep Springs College
English, Spanish, Polish
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Github Skills (140)
python10
hadoop10
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clojure10
golang10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mkocikowski/estools
Dec 2013 - Jan 2016
Elasticsearch data tools
Contributions:42 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
data-toolselasticaggregationelasticsearch
mkocikowski/libkafka
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
Golang implementation of Kafka wire protocol.
Contributions:7 reviews, 59 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 10 months
golangkafka-consumerproducerkafkawire-protocol
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