andriikl
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer and Solana-focused builder with experience shipping production-grade DeFi infrastructure. After scaling high-load distributed systems at Amazon, I transitioned to a Technical Founder role, designing and deploying a Solana trading platform with real-time RPC/WebSocket pipelines, programmatic transaction building, wallet orchestration, and optimized on-chain interactions. Strong in backend systems (Python/Java), AWS cloud architecture, and full-stack delivery, with hands-on experience across Solana blockchain
Experience: 3 years
Yearly salary: $160,000
Hourly rate: $110
Nationality: 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Residency: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Experience
Technical Founder / Lead Engineer
Market Whale (Solana DeFi Platform) 2023 - 2025
Architected and deployed a production-grade trading platform, handling the full system design and automated CI/CD pipelines. Engineered a proprietary real-time market data engine using Python/FastAPI and raw Solana RPC/WebSocket streams. Designed a cost-efficient, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS using CDK to orchestrate ECS Fargate containers and Aurora PostgreSQL. Integrated directly with Raydium and Pump AMM pools, deriving pool state via PDAs and parsing on-chain account layouts for real-time price calculations. Implemented transaction-building flows and custom instructions for swaps, token account closures, and complex multi-instruction batching.
Software Development Engineer
Amazon 2019 - 2023
Built and deployed the Eligibility service, a feature rollout system for Ring devices, using AWS Lambda and internal Amazon tooling. Built components of the event processing service handling high-volume device events and metadata, optimizing DynamoDB access patterns. Improved performance and availability of event pipelines and backend APIs under large-scale workloads. Strengthened service stability by improving on-call processes and reducing recurring operational issues.
Software Engineer
Ring 2018 - 2019
Developed cloud services supporting device state, settings, and event synchronization across Ring’s camera ecosystem. Worked closely with firmware, mobile, and QA teams to coordinate device–cloud integration and ensure smooth cross-team delivery. Built APIs and automation flows that supported new device features and cross-platform updates.
Ruby on Rails Developer
Softermii 2015 - 2018
Developed Ruby on Rails applications with REST APIs Improved database performance through SQL optimization, schema refactoring. Collaborated with different teams to standardize API patterns and improve reliability across shared services
Skills
aws
cloud-engineer
java
nextjs
python
solana
english
russian
ukrainian