Yevgeniy Miretskiy
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
Town of Huntington, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYevgeniy Miretskiy is a Staff Software Engineer with over 18 years building high-performance, distributed systems at Google, Facebook, Cockroach Labs, and Datadog. He focuses on cloud-native databases and backend infrastructure, contributing notably to CockroachDB’s changefeed features—improving performance, memory accounting, and shutdown robustness for a widely used open-source distributed SQL database. Skilled in C++, Go, algorithms, and testing, he consistently tackles complex scalability and efficiency challenges while shipping production-quality code. Based in Huntington, NY, he blends deep systems engineering with strong cross-functional collaboration and a steady track record of delivering reliable, large-scale software.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (16)
databases10
change-data-capture10
cdc10
distributed-systems10
go10
relational-databases10
back-end-development10
sql-database10
database10
testing9
sql9
performance-optimization9
ajax6
sencha-touch6
javascript6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1837 reviews, 561 commits, 803 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Yevgeniy's contributions center on enhancing the functionality of the CockroachDB database system, specifically focusing on the changefeed and its related components. Their work involved implementing and testing new features such as stream partition and support for filtering expressions over primary keys within the changefeed framework. Moreover, the user made improvements to the performance and stability of the changefeed, improving memory usage by memory accounting and increasing the efficiency of data processing during initial scan. They also addressed issues related to shutdown procedures within the system.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
miretskiy/cockroach
Sep 2019 - Apr 2024
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native SQL database.
Contributions:2035 pushes, 577 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 7 months
mysqlsql-databasesqlcockroachdboracle
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