Vlad Mishkin
Principal Engineer at TableCheck
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Mishkin is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack web platforms, currently leading architecture and delivery at TableCheck. He combines deep backend expertise in Ruby on Rails, Node.js and Python with strong AWS and Linux administration skills, having led multi-terabyte cloud migrations and sharding efforts to achieve sub-second analytics on billion-row datasets. As an early technical hire at Gleam he shaped CI/CD, on-call practices and moved a large fleet to RDS, and he continues to iterate on infrastructure resilience—evident from his contributions improving PostgreSQL failover and connection robustness in the popular Makara library. A founder of WebScraping.AI and an active integrator of GPT-based AI features, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with pragmatic engineering to deliver performant, cost-efficient systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
postgresql10
database-connection10
dbconnection10
ruby10
database-connectivity10
error-handling10
failover9
activerecord9
rspec8
elasticsearch6
elasticstack6
ruby-on-rails6
logstash6
elk6
facebook-graph-api6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
instacart/makara
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
A Read-Write Proxy for Connections; Also provides an ActiveRecord adapter.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vlad primarily contributed to improving the stability and error handling of the Makara library, a read-write proxy for database connections. They focused on enhancing PostgreSQL compatibility and failover mechanisms. Additionally, the user addressed connection issues, particularly when all database nodes were unavailable and made spec fixes. These changes reflect improvements to connection management and robustness within the library.
proxyread-writerailsrubyadapter
Drakula2k/capistrano-rails-server
Jul 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:36 commits in 8 months
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