Yaroslav Tkachenko
Founder at Irontools
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYaroslav Tkachenko is a founder and veteran software engineer with 14 years building data-intensive, streaming and distributed systems from startups to large enterprises. He introduced and led Apache Flink adoption at Shopify, architected real-time pipelines at Activision that processed hundreds of thousands of messages per second, and later helped build a serverless streaming platform and connectors at Goldsky. Now running Irontools and consulting, he focuses on making Flink faster and leaner while advising teams on production-grade stream processing, data plane/control plane design, and connector ecosystems. He combines hands-on implementation across Java, Scala, TypeScript/Node, Kafka, Redpanda, ClickHouse and Kubernetes with strategic architecture and roadmaps. Comfortable as both a founding engineer and engineering leader, he has repeatedly moved monoliths to event-driven microservices and improved observability, CI/CD and developer experience. Based in Vancouver, he pairs deep systems expertise with a practical bent for shipping performant, maintainable data platforms.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Engineering and System Analysis, Master's degree Software Engineering and System Analysis at Omsk State Technical University (OSTU)
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
2,907reputation
220kreached
59answers
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angularjs
top-5%
protractor
top-5%
Github Skills (175)
apache-spark10
postgresql10
python10
hadoop10
coverage10
etl10
masking10
data-pipeline10
r10
big-data10
scale10
sql10
elt10
data-processing10
batch10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sap1ens/heimdall
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 releases, 42 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 7 months
sap1ens/dotfiles
Apr 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 5 years 9 months
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