Yaroslav Tkachenko is a software engineer interested in distributed systems, microservices, data-intensive applications, modern cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices.

Currently, Yaroslav is a Principal Software Engineer at Goldsky, focused on building a read layer for the blockchain data leveraging the power of stream-processing.

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. Before joining Activision, Yaroslav held various leadership roles in multiple startups.