# Julia Kostiukova

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/juliakostiukova

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer - SRE @ Coursera
Jan 2016 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
- Led migration to an industry-standard SLO framework with real-time burn rate and error budget alerts, reducing detection time from hours to seconds; adopted and evangelized across 100% of engineering teams.
- Built and deployed a modular AMI pipeline enabling safe, large-scale automation with rigorous validation and zero manual rollout.
- Led incident resolution as Incident Commander for 3+ years, including writing high-quality postmortems and process improvements.
- Achieved 90%+ accuracy in cloud cost forecasts; drove initiatives improving TechOps-to-Revenue efficiency.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Coursera
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Co-led the migration of Coursera’s cloud infra to Terraform & Atlantis, achieving 100% IaC coverage and eliminating manual configuration drift.
- Led annual disaster recovery exercises for 3+ years; delivered a 98% test pass rate and recovery 67% faster than SLA.
- Provided stability and mentorship during key team transitions, anchoring SRE culture and roadmap.

### Software Engineer @ Coursera
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Reduced subtitle pipeline latency from several hours to minutes, significantly accelerating global course translation workflows. Led the integration of AI-generated transcripts for lecture videos, replacing manual processes and boosting scalability.
- Optimized learner notifications by implementing a multi-priority queue architecture, ensuring timely and reliable delivery of high-priority messages to millions of users. Reduced latency for urgent communications such as assignment deadlines and system alerts, improving user engagement and trust.
- Built Coursera’s first synthetic monitoring suite, improving platform availability tracking.
- Migrated 100+ courses from legacy Jupyter notebooks to Coursera Labs, saving \$260K+ annually.

### Software Engineer @ Softage
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Novosibirsk, Russia
Contributed to the development of a government request processing system, improving administrative efficiency. Collaborated with a cross-continental team on the NextGen loan servicing platform, helping modernize and streamline loan operations.

### Software Engineer @ Xored software, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Novosibirsk Region, Russian Federation
- Maintained and extended F4, an Eclipse-based IDE for the Fantom language, including type hierarchy visualization.
- Developed core backend and UI components for Spirent’s network lab management platform; implemented reservation conflict detection in complex topologies.

### Software Engineer @ AXHive Solutions
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Altai Territory, Russian Federation
Built a cross-platform iOS/Android mobile app to deliver an engaging and innovative Japanese language learning experience.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Novosibirsk Region, Russian Federation
Ported and optimized 20 workloads from NVidia CUDA SDK to Intel MIC architecture (a GPUGP chip with up to 128 cores).

### Web Developer @ FISSA electronics
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Altai Territory, Russian Federation
Designed and implemented the real-time frontend of a Web-SCADA system for dispatching water pumps and managing citywide heating infrastructure. The system was successfully deployed and is actively used to monitor and control pump operations, water tower temperatures, and municipal heating systems.

### Computer Technician @ Altai State Technical University near I.I.Polzunov
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Altai Territory, Russian Federation

### Software Engineering Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Novosibirsk Region, Russian Federation
Worked on tests and documentation for MKL (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/onemkl.html)


## Education
### Master's Degree in Computer Science
Altai State Technical University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/juliakostiukova
- Portfolio: http://about.me/hisohito

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Last updated: 2026-04-12