Mike Aizatsky is a Principal Software Engineer with 18 years building high-scale, resilient distributed systems and runtimes, currently shaping Cloudflare Workers from San Francisco. He has deep C++, Java, and Python expertise plus product and project management experience, with a long Google tenure focused on sanitizers, fuzzing, and large-scale data processing. Mike is a pragmatic systems designer who pairs low-level performance work (including assembler/DSP early career experience) with modern build and CI automation—his OSS contributions include improving OSS-Fuzz CI and Bazel builds for Cap'n Proto. He excels at bridging developer tooling, observability, and runtime engineering to make complex platforms reliable and maintainable.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master Mathematics, Master Mathematics at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
OSS-Fuzz - continuous fuzzing for open source software.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:624 commits, 79 PRs, 792 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on modifying the CI/CD pipeline and build scripts for the OSS-Fuzz project. Their commits include updates to the `libfuzzer-pipeline.groovy` file, which likely defines the fuzzing pipeline, along with modifications to base images and build scripts. They implemented changes related to docker image building, test execution, and report generation. Additionally, they addressed issues in the build process and made optimizations.
Cap'n Proto serialization/RPC system - core tools and C++ library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:153 reviews, 16 commits, 171 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on enhancing the build process and supporting infrastructure for the Cap'n Proto project. Their contributions included implementing Bazel build configurations for the `kj` and `capnp` libraries, streamlining the build and test processes. They also addressed code issues and incorporated new features to support generated Cap'n Proto files. These actions demonstrate expertise in build systems and backend development.
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Mike Aizatsky - Principal Software Engineer at Cloudflare