Mikhail Kot
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Kot is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, databases, and CI/CD tooling across companies from Yandex and Tinkoff to Databricks. He specializes in backend and DevOps work for cloud data warehouses and ClickHouse-related systems, contributing to core storage replication features in the open-source ByConity project and creating utilities that saved users significant time and operational cost. Mikhail has led cross-team integrations in embedded and autonomous contexts, optimized compiler toolchains and sanitizers for low-latency GPU inference, and designed in-house CI replacements that instrument developer metrics. Comfortable across Go, C++ and large-scale infrastructure, he combines systems-level rigor with practical developer experience improvements. Notably, he has a track record of turning recovery and orchestration problems—like ZooKeeper/keeper restoration and dynamic cluster reconfiguration—into predictable, user-friendly tools. Based in the UK, he pairs academic training in distributed systems and big data with a consistent open-source and operational mindset.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Distributed Systems, Bachelor of Computer Science Distributed Systems at Higher School of EconomicsBig Data, Big Data at Yandex School of Data Analysis
Github Skills (12)
data-storage10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
clickhouse10
replication9
zookeeper9
git8
sql7
cloud-computing7
devops7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ByConity/ByConity
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
ByConity is an open source cloud data warehouse
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail contributed to core back-end functionalities, primarily within the `StorageReplicatedMergeTree` class, indicating a focus on data storage and replication aspects of the data warehouse. Their work involved fixing data part initialization, removing logging, and implementing the `SYSTEM RESTORE REPLICA` feature. Additionally, the user demonstrated knowledge of build processes and CI/CD pipelines through changes to the website and code highlighting configuration.
datawarehousewarehousedbmsolapclickhouse
myrrc/ClickHouse
Jan 2020 - Mar 2024
Developer fork.
Contributions:10 reviews, 9 PRs, 1701 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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