Experience
Global Payments
Remote
- Led architecture, R&D, and implementation of an automated Python calibration platform, reducing initial store setup effort by 50% from 40 to 20 engineer-hours per store.
- Reduced missed vehicle detections by approximately 77% (22 to 5 per 100 vehicles) through improvements to detector integration and the tracking pipeline.
- Increased automated test coverage from 10% to 34% by replacing a legacy test structure with unified pytest-based CI and integration tests.
- Mentored three engineers through a modularization initiative that removed duplicated logic and isolated proprietary components for patent-related work.
Ambition
Remote
- Delivered features end to end across Django/DRF and React in a four-engineer Scrum squad, with Cypress end-to-end coverage.
- Built and shipped a production Seismic integration, supporting a company-level OKR to establish a strategic partnership.
- Joined product discovery and documented data models so future engineers could extend the platform more easily.
Levi9
Ukraine / Remote
- Led backend delivery for a Django-based product while remaining hands-on with architecture, implementation, and reviews.
- Worked closely with an experienced engineering manager and mentored a junior engineer within a compact product team.
- Translated business needs into maintainable backend changes across product and operational workflows.
- Developed Python services for a data-intensive SaaS platform and contributed to reliable integrations and domain workflows.
- Collaborated across engineering and product to deliver focused changes in an established enterprise codebase.
- Owned a service aggregating Dutch TV-programme data from multiple external APIs into a common JSON model, indexed in Elasticsearch and exposed via REST.
- Fixed indexing failures from oversized jobs by adding task monitoring and splitting processing into smaller units.
Touch Stay
Remote
- Led a product engineering team while continuing to design and implement core backend functionality.
- Helped deliver approximately 80% of product features during a period of rapid SaaS growth.
- Created a collaborative environment around ownership, feedback, and dependable delivery.
Wondermall
Remote
- Built Python/Scrapy crawlers and product parsers for fashion retailers within a platform aggregating ~500 stores, delivering a typical new integration in 3–4 days.
- Maintained ~30 integrations and restored broken parsers within two days of source-site changes, using headless browsers (PhantomJS) for JavaScript-heavy stores.
- Supported reliability with Jenkins health checks sampling product links and chat/PagerDuty on-call alerts.
Religion Peace
Remote
- Built backend features for a community social platform, including groups, media, messaging, and chat.
- Moved into QA automation, creating Robot Framework and Selenium coverage for browser and API workflows.
Education
M.Sc., Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute · 2013
Specialization in renewable energy; research included hybrid renewable-energy systems, modeling, and data-driven technical evaluation.
Hiring & mentoring
Engineering organizations
Conducted 200+ technical interviews, mentored engineers, and taught Python to early-career developers.
Languages
EnglishProfessional working proficiency
UkrainianNative / bilingual
