Vadim Plakhtinskii
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolVadim Plakhtinskii is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance distributed systems, currently working at Uber in the Netherlands. He has deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, cluster lifecycle automation, and reliability engineering, having led Kubernetes fork upgrades and designed cluster orchestrators that enable regional deployments. Previously at Redpanda Data he optimized replication and transaction performance, contributed core V8 JavaScript engine integrations for a Kafka-compatible streaming platform, and validated protocols with chaos testing and Kafka KIPs. Early roles at VK, Yandex and Mail.ru sharpened his systems and database design skills, and he has taught concurrency and database systems at MIPT while applying formal methods like TLA+ to distributed algorithms. Colleagues know him for practical performance wins (e.g., 4x transaction improvements) and for pairing rigorous formal reasoning with hands-on engineering to ship resilient, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, French
Github Skills (7)
v8-javascript-engine10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
seastar9
system-design6
storage-engine5
go4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:720 reviews, 360 commits, 155 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Vadim's contributions center around integrating and developing functionality for a JavaScript engine (V8) within the Redpanda streaming data platform. This includes setting up build tools for V8, adding V8 engine environment, implementing a V8 instance, adding JavaScript scripts for tests, and modifying the code to support a data-policy property. The user's work directly involves the core functionality of Redpanda.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
VadimPlh/redpanda
Apr 2021 - Mar 2023
Redpanda is the real-time engine for modern apps.
Contributions:8 reviews, 17 PRs, 1137 pushes in 1 year 11 months
redpandacross-platformreal-time
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