# Shay Elkin

> Staff Software Engineer at Confluent

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shayelkin

I am a software engineer at Confluent, building Kafka for the Cloud.

My professional interests include distributed systems and reliability of software at scale.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Confluent
Jan 2019 – Present
Driving engineering initiatives to improve reliability, availability, cloud costs, and compliance for Confluent Cloud’s Kafka.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Mixpanel
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, CA
• Helped customers learn about their users: Created automated predictive modelling of user behavior, and detecting interesting user cohorts.
• Increased visibility of Mixpanel’s analysis products by building a mailbox service to store, aggregate, prioritize, and deliver timely notifications.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Life360
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA
• Rewrote backend services to improve requests latency by an order of magnitude, while reducing the fleet size, to achieve a significant reduction in cloud costs.
• Built a custom HTTP mesh proxy to enable asynchronous RPCs between backend services, backpressure and throttling controls, and better monitoring and observability.

### Senior Software Engineer @ DoAT Media
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Scaled critical services for training, inference, entity detection, graph traversal, trending news detection and user analytics.

### Founding Engineer @ Cemmerce
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Made Cemmerce ready for launching their ad network: transitioned development from an outsourced team to an internal one and established reliability practices.

### Software Engineer @ PTC
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
Developed components for visualization, layout, and automated testing for the MathCad Prime desktop application.


## Education
### Graduate coursework in Mathematics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

### B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shayel
- Portfolio: https://shayelk.in/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12