Vladimir Shtokman
Engineering Manager at Klaviyo
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolVladimir Shtokman is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems and infrastructure from startups to large cloud platforms. He has led teams across commerce, replication, and messaging domains at Klaviyo, Redpanda Data, Twitter, and Akamai, blending hands-on engineering with people leadership. His background spans backend performance, storage gateway work at AWS, and low-latency network and WebRTC research at Akamai Labs, giving him deep expertise in systems-level optimization. Vladimir also contributes to open-source tooling—improving Redpanda’s backporting automation with GitHub Actions—to make multi-version maintenance more reliable and developer-friendly. Based in Newton, MA, he combines rigorous engineering (dual technical degrees from UVA and Columbia) with a pragmatic focus on shipping production-grade features that simplify operational complexity.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Гимназия 36Brookline High SchoolBS, Computer Science, 3.72, BS, Computer Science, 3.72 at Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied ScienceBS, Computer Engineering, 3.91, BS, Computer Engineering, 3.91 at University of Virginia
English, Russian, Latin
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Github Skills (21)
github-ci10
porting10
bash10
cicd10
backport10
script10
ports10
githubaction-workflow10
git9
maven6
eclipse6
heroku6
api6
bundler6
if-statement6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Feb 2023 - Jul 2023
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 67 PRs, 49 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Vladimir focused on improving the automation and usability of the Redpanda project's backporting process using GitHub Actions. They developed scripts to create tracking issues, generate commands for manual cherry-picking, and streamline the workflow for merging backports. Their work included modifying the `create_issue.sh` script, integrating the `backport_on_merge.sh` script, and refining conditional logic within the action to improve the backporting workflow. These changes ultimately enhanced the ability to maintain and distribute code across different Redpanda versions by automating and clearly defining the manual backporting steps.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
redpanda-data/documentation
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Public repo for Redpanda documentation.
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 comments in 1 day
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