Olga Shestopalova
Staff Software Engineer at HubSpot
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOlga Shestopalova is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years building reliable, scalable backend systems, currently leading upgrades and MySQL/Vitess infrastructure at HubSpot. An MIT Course 6-3 graduate, she combines deep database engineering—contributions to the vitess project and multi-datacenter unique ID systems—with operational automation to enable safe, fast upgrades and confident query compatibility testing. Previously she led search efforts optimizing Elasticsearch and applied ML to ranking, and has full-stack experience from CMS and ads features to frontend work. Moscow-born and Miami-raised, she pairs rigorous technical depth with a taste for practical resilience (and a penchant for growing a tiny indoor forest). Open to conversations about roles and collaboration, she brings both hands-on debugging chops and cross-team technical leadership across data infra.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.9, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.9 at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, 4.0, High School, 4.0 at Miami Palmetto Senior High
Russian, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
mysql10
databases10
go10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
testing9
sha9
go-testing9
concurrency9
kubernetes-pods8
kubernetes8
data-structures6
recursion6
antlr6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 1 commit, 9 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Olga Shestopalova's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Vitess database clustering system. Her work involved bug fixes related to concurrency and error handling within the codebase, as well as improvements to the testing framework, especially around end-to-end testing. Additionally, she implemented code changes related to performance optimization and handling of transactions. These modifications indicate a focus on maintaining and improving the reliability and efficiency of the Vitess system, with the commits showing a good understanding of the system's internal workings.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
Bandits789/WhatSongIsItAnyway
Feb 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:95 commits in 3 months
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