Summary
Sergey Kishchenko is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 17 years of hands-on experience spanning game development, mobile, web, and high-load distributed systems. A lifelong hacker who started coding at 13 and worked full-time from 17, he blends low-level C/C++ and systems work with higher-level ML, data mining, and prediction systems. At Google since 2013 and previously an architect at Quickoffice, he specializes in system design, network communications, and building resilient high-throughput services. Comfortable across platforms from Windows Mobile and FreeBSD to modern cloud environments, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an optimistic, straightforward approach. He also maintains a professional site (kishchenko.info), signaling a habit of documenting and sharing technical insights beyond day-to-day product work.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
master, Computer Science, master, Computer Science at National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'