Mikayla Konst
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMikayla Konst is a Staff Software Engineer and tech lead with 11 years of experience building cloud and automotive developer platforms at Google, currently shaping Google Automotive Services from Seattle. She brings deep distributed-systems and DevOps expertise from leading Google Cloud Dataproc efforts, including hands-on improvements to initialization actions that made Dataproc clusters more reliable in private IP and Kerberized environments. Beyond core engineering, Mikayla designs and teaches curricula—having created a GenAI-focused algorithms and system design course shared with university partners—demonstrating an ability to translate complex systems knowledge into effective education. Known for pragmatic problem solving, she combines infrastructure rigor with product-minded leadership to deliver developer-facing services at scale. Collected experience across App Engine, Dataproc, and automotive APIs gives her a rare cross-domain perspective on cloud-to-edge integrations.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Linguistics, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Linguistics at University of Rochester
English, French
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Github Skills (14)
sh10
script10
cloud-infrastructure10
shell10
google-cloud-dataproc10
scripting10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
mysql8
kerberos7
hive6
google-cloud-platform6
oozie6
airflow6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudDataproc/initialization-actions
Oct 2017 - Feb 2021
Run in all nodes of your cluster before the cluster starts - lets you customize your cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 10 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mikayla primarily focuses on modifying and improving initialization actions within a Google Cloud Dataproc environment. Their work includes fixing Oozie and Hue initialization actions, specifically addressing issues related to dependencies and proxy user configurations. They also made changes to the cloud-sql-proxy initialization action, working to make it work in private IP and kerberized clusters. Their contributions improve the operability and integration of various components within the Dataproc cluster initialization process.
nodesgoogle-cloud-dataprockubernetescustomizeterraform
mikaylakonst/dataproc-initialization-actions
Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
Run in all nodes of your cluster before the cluster starts - lets you customize your cluster
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
lodashnodescjskubernetescustomize
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