Summary
Mykhaylo Bochkarov is a Principal System Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale web and network systems, currently leading infrastructure and platform reliability at Live Nation Entertainment. He combines deep expertise in Perl-driven web services, Linux systems, and CI/CD with broad cloud and automation skills across AWS, Terraform, Ansible and observability stacks. His background spans founding and running VAS-focused startups and an open-source community in Ukraine, giving him unique product, operational and business acumen alongside technical leadership. He’s comfortable across the full stack—from low-level Linux networking and custom distributions to database design (MySQL/Postgres, PL/SQL) and caching layers like Redis. Notably, he has repeatedly bridged telecom VAS protocols (SMPP, MM7, USSD) and modern cloud-native practices, making him adept at modernizing legacy telecom platforms. Based between Los Angeles and Canada, he brings an operator’s mindset to architecting resilient, automatable systems for high-traffic consumer services.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
PhysMath Liceum of State University (Kiev, Ukraine)
English, Russian, Ukrainian