Yaroslav Tkachenko is a software engineer & architect specializing in data-intensive applications, data streaming, stream processing, and distributed systems.

Yaroslav has created Irontools: a suite of Apache Flink extensions that improve efficiency and unlock new use cases.

Until recently, Yaroslav was a Principal Software Engineer at Goldsky, focused on building a serverless data platform that provides streaming transformations and connectors for the decentralized blockchain data.
Before that, Yaroslav was a Staff Data Engineer at Shopify, working on building and supporting libraries, tools and services for Shopify's stream processing use cases.
Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer and later Software Architect at Activision, where he redesigned and rebuilt the data pipeline for Activision games like the Call of Duty franchise.