# Artem Tkachuk > Compute Infra Engineer @ Netflix | {CS, Applied Math} @ Berkeley Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/artemtkachuk Striving to become a polymath and positively change the world. Motivated CS and Applied Math recent graduate from Berkeley with entrepreneurial drive and experience in Full-Stack Web Development, Machine Learning, Product Management, and Cloud Computing across various internships, projects, and research experiences. Currently a Software Engineer 4 @ Netflix in the Compute Runtime team, developing expertise in building scalable and efficient systems, contributing to innovative solutions, and learning from a collaborative team of professionals. Joined Netflix as part of a selective New Grad program. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer L4 @ Netflix Jan 2025 – Present | Los Gatos, California, United States • Continuing in the Compute Runtime Team within Compute Platform under Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, focusing on enhancing Netflix’s containerized Compute Platform (Titus) • Modernizing the Titus data plane by upgrading to containerd v2 and adopting Kubernetes kubelet, improving container runtime efficiency and orchestration. ### Software Engineer L3 @ Netflix Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Los Gatos, California, United States ∙ Compute Runtime Team within Compute Platform organization under Cloud Infrastructure Engineering ∙ Part of the Exclusive New Grad class – 2nd ever @ Netflix ∙ Working on Titus – Netflix’s containerized Compute Platform used throughout the company for both streaming and batch workloads ∙ Executing full SDLC for multiple Go, C (including instrumenting kernel space observability using eBPF) & Python services around CPU isolation and Docker/Kubernetes operability, deploying updates to thousands of Linux hosts, ensuring availability and robustness ∙ Gave a talk about Noisy Neighbor problems detection using eBPF at the organization-wide summit ∙ Later co-authored a blogpost in Netflix Technology Blog on Noisy Neighbor detection with eBPF that rose to #2 on Hacker News 1 hour after being published ∙ During Summer 2024, I mentored an intern on the team who successfully delivered on a complex project under my supervision and got a return offer ### Machine Learning Engineer @ Constructo Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Campbell, California, United States ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Constructo Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Campbell, California, United States ### Backend Developer @ Convex Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States ∙ Real-time club application portal for the entire UC Berkeley community in partnership with Web Development at Berkeley ### Backend Developer, Industry Branch @ Web Development at Berkeley Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States Community of Builders, Creatives, and Entrepreneurs. UC Berkeley’s Premier Web Design and Development Organization ### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Berkeley RISE Lab Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States ∙ GRAY: DISTRIBUTED TRAINING FOR BILLION-SCALE GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS ∙ Achieved 5x leverage of available GPU resources & 10x speedup in finding optimal set by building a scalable hyperparameter tuning engine on top of Weights & Biases sweeps ∙ Presented a poster at UC Berkeley EECS Research Symposium ∙ Served as secondary reviewer for NeurIPS 2021. Reviewed PipeGCN & PoolingGNN papers ∙ Advised by Wei-Lin Chiang & Zhanghao Wu (faculty: Ion Stoica/Joey Gonzalez) ∙ Undergraduate research / software engineering experience ### Student Coordinator @ UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States A Berkeley Changemaker course: A.Richard Newton Lecture Series ### Reader/Tutor (DATA C100: Principles and Techniques of Data Science) @ UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States ∙ Hosted 40 hrs of Office Hours, where I helped 100+ students with conceptual questions and in-depth debugging ∙ Graded parts of 12 homeworks for 200+ students and wrote feedback/explanations ### Software Engineer Intern @ D-Lab, UC Berkeley Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States ∙ Crawl4All is a scalable, robust web-crawling pipeline applicable across web designs and accessible for researchers with minimal computational skills ∙ Started as a full-stack engineer in a 5-person team. Built Node.js server, React Frontend, and connected previously separate components (Crawley scraping backend + React + Node) to create the first alpha version of the system ∙ Later got promoted to a Product Manager. Initiated a pivot and changed team focus resulting in the team successfully delivering the alpha version by the conference deadline ∙ Edited Figma prototype, walkthrough videos, system architecture diagrams & poster ∙ Presented the work at Data Science Discovery Showcase conference ∙ Supervisor Jaren Haber, PhD. ### Academic Intern (CS70: Discrete Mathematics and Probability) @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States ∙ Helped 30+ students in the breakout rooms ∙ Volunteered to present solutions to discussion questions several times ∙ Assisted TA Sylvia Jin in preparing for the discussion ### Teaching Assistant (CS198 DeCal: Algorithmic Thinking) @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States Getting more Berkeley students to ace their technical interviews. ### Member @ DECODE Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States ### Investment & Derivatives Cohort Member @ IvyLine Capital Group Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Selected amongst a competitive and international applicant pool to participate in IvyLine Capital’s Investments & Derivatives Cohort. ∙ Actively participate in education surrounding the fundamentals of security analysis, portfolio construction, portfolio modeling, advanced technical analysis, and the applications of derivatives. ∙ Participate in weekly lectures and speaker events with industry professionals. ∙ Collaborate and engage with over 500 students across over 130 universities and 30 different countries through investment challenges. ∙ Effectively completing assignments, experiences, and education in a virtual setting. ### Private Tutor @ Unknown Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Globally I teach Python with applications, help with Mathematics and Computer Science assignments ### Lead, Google Developer Student Club @ UC Berkeley @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States ∙ DSC eased the Berkeley CS learning curve & helped 200 beginner students learn Firebase, Google Cloud & Angular under Google's guidance & solve real-world problems ∙ We strived to build a diverse & inclusive community unlike some other clubs at Berkeley ∙ I created a website for the club, gathered a team, came up with ways to promote the club using various campus and other means, arranged collaborations with other clubs on workshops and events, advocated for getting Google's learning resources & encouraged students to participate in 2021 DSC Solutions Challenge ### Product Management Intern @ California Office of Data & Innovation Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Sacramento, California, United States ∙ Volunteered to join early stage of "California Open Opportunities" pilot project - main California's volunteer matching platform for COVID-19 and other mission-critical state government efforts, including equity, diversity, justice, accessibility, procurement, and data ∙ Set up development processes within the team, hosted trainings ∙ Onboarded the first 30 state customers. Made other contributions to planning and marketing ∙ Worked under the direction of Tamara Srzentic ### Spring Open Lab participant @ Mozilla Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 ### Webmaster at ACM LRCCD Student Chapter @ ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Sacramento, California Area http://losriosccd.acm.org/ ### Vice President Of Technology @ Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society International Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Sacramento, California, United States ### President of Computer Science Club @ American River College Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Sacramento, California Area ∙ Gave a series of 3 talks on Machine Learning for 100+ students (Part 1 on YouTube) ∙ Led the development of 2 web development projects involving club members ∙ Negotiated about bringing “Google Developer Student Club” program to campus ∙ Invited club members to participate in hackathons. We took part in 11, won 3 prizes ### Founder @ Uttpic Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ∙ Uttpic empowers anyone to expand their horizon by getting a precise representation of the world's current preferences in all areas of the arts and human creativity ∙ Solo-created an initial prototype (www.uttpic.com) using Node.js, TypeScript, Google CloudSQL, Neo4j, MongoDB, AWS S3, EJS, iTunes & TMDB APIs, and Google Cloud Build ∙ Exhibited at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Was selected to do a flash pitch on stage ### iOS Development Intern @ Premium Coffee Solutions Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Moscow, Russian Federation ∙ Studied the basics of Swift, React Native, and SQL databases ∙ Contributed to the company's mobile app that uses advanced technologies such as the device's Bluetooth functionality ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics University of California, Berkeley ### Computer Science Intensive Studies in Summer Session Stanford University ### Silicon Valley Innovation Academy Stanford University ### AI Startup School Y Combinator ### Associate's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science American River College ### High School Diploma in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics Moscow School #444 ### English Language and Literature in General Moscow School #1200 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/artemtkachuk - Portfolio: https://artemtkachuk.me - Portfolio: https://devpost.com/artemtkachuk - Portfolio: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Artem-Tkachuk-2 --- Source: https://flows.cv/artemtkachuk JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/artemtkachuk/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31