Elena Mikhailov
Jobs (1)
Strong match on every required skill, with staff-level scope that exceeds the req. Direct experience owning reliability and on-call process for a distributed system at comparable scale.
- +8 years distributed systems experience, directly on point for the role's scope
- +Hands-on with the full required stack: Python, AWS, PostgreSQL, event-driven architecture
- +Already led on-call maturity work — a named preferred qualification
- −No direct Kubernetes production ownership listed — ECS/SQS experience instead
Resume
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Summary
Backend engineer with 8 years building and operating distributed systems at scale. Led the migration of a monolithic order-processing service to an event-driven architecture on AWS, cutting p99 latency by 60%.
Experience
Staff Engineer, Northwind Logistics (2021–2026): Owned platform reliability for a fleet-routing system processing 40M events/day. Designed the team's on-call rotation and incident review process. Built the caching layer (Redis + read replicas) that took the primary Postgres cluster from 90% to 30% CPU under peak load. Senior Engineer, Fenwick Data (2018–2021): Built ingestion pipelines on Kafka and Python; migrated batch ETL to streaming, reducing data latency from 4 hours to under 2 minutes.
Skills
Python, Go, AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, SQS), Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Terraform, distributed systems design, on-call leadership.
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