About

Mykyta Protsenko is a highly skilled software engineer with over 15 years of experience in designing and building large-scale distributed client/server systems. He is proficient in various programming languages such as Java, Scala, C++, and Python, and has a strong understanding of OOP concepts, design patterns, RDBMS, and NoSQL. Currently, Mykyta is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, where he works on developing a distributed API-level failure simulation engine for critical streaming services. He also built a curated profiles infrastructure that enables codifying best practices, allowing individual teams to develop and maintain their own solutions. Prior to Netflix, Mykyta worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Roku, where he evaluated different container orchestration tools, implemented the "infrastructure as code" process, and worked on a set of billing microservices. He also provided technical leadership and mentoring to a team of offshore contractors and evangelized best practices at conferences such as Devoxx Belgium, Gradle Summit, and JavaDays Kyiv. Before Roku, Mykyta was a Senior Software Engineer at Tango.me, where he designed and implemented backend services for Tango games, including RoadRiot, which had over 20 million downloads and generated $12 million in revenue. He also developed a Java monitoring framework, improved Tango's testing practices, and built a game spam reduction system. Mykyta's technical expertise includes AWS, test-driven development, infrastructure-as-code, ECS, SQL, web services, Kubernetes, Spring, Terraform, microservices, Docker, MySQL, NoSQL, GCP, Java, CI/CD, Spring Boot, Python, and Scala. He is a highly experienced software engineer with a proven track record of designing and building large-scale systems and mentoring teams.