Mykyta Protsenko
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolMykyta Protsenko is a senior software engineer with over 15 years designing and building large-scale distributed systems and backend services, currently driving resilience and best-practice infrastructure at Netflix from San Jose. He combines deep expertise in Java, Spring, RESTful APIs, RDBMS/NoSQL, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) with hands-on experience in containers, IaC (Terraform), and performance tuning for high-throughput services. Past work includes scaling billing systems at Roku to tens of millions of users, authoring an open-source Gradle plugin to automate AWS provisioning, and building a failure-simulation engine and curated profiles infrastructure at Netflix. He has a track record of improving test practices and observability (including mutation testing and large-scale monitoring) and often wears multiple hats—coding, defining roadmaps, and collaborating with product and operations teams. Known for squeezing orders-of-magnitude performance gains out of legacy systems, he pairs pragmatic engineering with mentoring and advocacy for developer efficiency.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Applied Mathematics, Master’s Degree, Applied Mathematics at Donetsk National University
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Github Skills (46)
graph8
visualizations7
terraform7
java7
aws7
elasticsearch6
elastic6
infrastructure6
gradle-plugin6
grpc6
rpc6
django-blog6
observability6
kibana6
terraform-module5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
break-me-if-you-can/gcp-cluster
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
grpc-web-all-about-communication/services
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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