Misha Chernetsov
Area Tech Lead, Grammarly Platform
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMisha Chernetsov is an experienced software leader with 12 years in engineering and over a decade building distributed data platforms, currently serving as Area Tech Lead for the Grammarly Platform in Austin. He specializes in architecting scalable analytics and storage systems—having designed in-house Parquet+S3 storage, a Scala DSL for composable aggregations, and cross-device user attribution pipelines that operate in both batch and streaming modes. Misha has repeatedly scaled teams and products from scratch, blending hands-on engineering with technical management across startups and large companies (Pixonic, Amazon, Odnoklassniki). He brings deep expertise in Spark, Scala, Kafka, Cassandra and AWS, and a knack for turning complex data requirements into developer-friendly tools like custom SQL query layers and web-based editors. A former CTO and serial founder, he pairs product instincts with systems-level rigor and a practical focus on operational efficiency.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master, applied physics and mathematics, CS, Master, applied physics and mathematics, CS at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
145reputation
11kreached
2answers
7questions
Github Skills (107)
python10
generative10
grammarly10
spelling10
r10
scale10
sql10
spark10
java10
scala10
jdbc10
big-data9
data-processing9
sdk9
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chernetsov/vrview
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 day
grammarly/data-eng-home-assignment
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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