Yury Kats
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolYury Kats is a Staff Software Engineer with more than three decades of experience designing and delivering complex enterprise and cloud-native systems. He currently contributes to Google Cloud Platform after leading architecture and development of Hitachi products including Hitachi Content Intelligence, Content Monitor, Lumada Foundry and the Hitachi Content Platform. Yury brings deep expertise across distributed systems, search and storage (Elasticsearch/Solr, HDFS, object storage), microservices and container platforms, and has strong hands-on skills in C++, Java, Python and cloud tooling. He has a proven track record of leading globally distributed teams through full product lifecycles and optimizing performance at scale—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile envoyproxy/envoy project focused on reducing memory use and improving routing efficiency. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, performance-focused refactoring, and reliable delivery in mission-critical environments. Based in Greater Boston, he combines legacy-system wisdom from IBM and Hitachi with current cloud-native practices at Google.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
239MS, Computer Sciences, MS, Computer Sciences at ITMO University
English, German, Russian
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Github Skills (11)
memory-management10
routing-slip10
c-language10
routes10
envoyproxy10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
data-structure9
data-structures9
cnc4
yaml4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:93 reviews, 22 commits, 48 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Yury's contributions primarily focused on improving the performance and efficiency of the Envoy proxy. Their work involved refactoring code, reducing memory utilization in routing and configuration, and optimizing data structures. They addressed specific issues such as undefined behavior, overhead in RDS updates, and memory usage in various components like routes and virtual hosts, leading to a more performant and resource-efficient system. They also refactored existing code to use unique pointers to reduce memory utilization.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
yurykats/s3fs-fuse
Feb 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 11 months
fusefile-basedamazonamazon-s3file-system-based
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