Summary
Yaroslav Litvinov is a founding engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building systems from low-level runtime and hypervisor work to cloud-native services and startups. He’s led technical efforts across C++, Go, Python, and JavaScript, shipping production ETL, database tooling, and distributed runtime systems (zerovm/ZRT) as well as founding product-focused companies. After contributing to large-scale ETL and cloud projects at Rackspace and building database/infra at CaspianDB, he founded Hoctail and now helps build Embucket, bringing both deep systems knowledge and product instincts. Uniquely, he paused a thriving engineering career to serve in the State Special Transport Service during martial law, returning with strengthened resilience and leadership under pressure. He combines pragmatic engineering (Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub workflows) with a history of open-source tooling and protocol-level work, making him effective at both architecting infrastructure and shipping customer-facing features. Based in Ukraine, he’s currently not seeking opportunities and keeps active code activity visible on his GitHub.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer systems and networks, Specialist, Computer systems and networks at Odessa State Polytechnic University
Ukrainian, Russian, English