Shiranka Miskin
Senior Software Engineer at Tempo (YC S23)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShiranka Miskin is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust, production-grade systems across front-end, desktop, and backend infrastructure. He has shipped security- and type-focused improvements at Slack and architected IPC and build optimizations for WhatsApp’s desktop clients, then moved into distributed systems work at Cockroach Labs contributing stability and observability enhancements to the high-profile CockroachDB changefeed codepath. More recently he’s held senior full-stack and platform roles at startups and is currently at Tempo (YC S23), combining startup velocity with enterprise-grade reliability. Comfortable across languages and layers, Shiranka specializes in making complex distributed and multi-process systems more resilient and testable. A detail-oriented engineer, he has a track record of catching subtle issues (off-by-one and checkpoint regressions) that materially improve system robustness.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Crosby HeightsBachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (9)
databases10
error-handling10
go10
distributed-database10
database10
testing9
metric9
data-collection9
kafka9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:164 reviews, 90 commits, 102 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Shiranka contributed to the CockroachDB repository by modifying code related to changefeeds. The contributions involved marking KV feed errors as retryable to improve resilience during cluster upgrades, adding a metric to approximate backfill progress, enabling changefeed distribution over tenant pods, and addressing an off-by-one error in rangefeed handling. These changes directly impacted the stability and functionality of the changefeed feature, improving its robustness. The user also worked on handling a checkpoint that was lagging behind.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
samiskin/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 5 months
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