brovy

Software Engineer

Backend Software Engineer with 4+ years building production microservices and distributed systems in Java/Spring Boot. Currently at Citi developing transaction processing and real-time risk measurement systems with Kafka-driven pipelines. Delivered REST APIs, database migrations, and event-driven backend services across fintech, loyalty, and SaaS platforms. Experienced across the full development lifecycle: service design, TDD, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and deployment on AWS and Kubernetes. 3+ years working with AWS across multiple accounts and regions.

Experience: 4 years

Yearly salary: $46,000

Hourly rate: $40

Nationality: 🇧🇾 Belarus

Residency: 🇵🇱 Poland


Experience

Java Software Engineer
Zoolatech - Nordstrom Contractor
2025 - 2026
Built and integrated backend components for migrating customer data to a new database within the Talon.one loyalty platform, ensuring data consistency across multiple services. Optimized migration logic, significantly reducing execution time and eliminating data inaccuracies. Diagnosed and fixed Kafka producer/consumer configuration issues in a distributed environment, restoring data integrity. Configured AWS resources (multi-account, multi-region) to support new infrastructure requirements. Migrated 8 production components from GitLab to GitHub, updating CI/CD pipelines with zero downtime.
Software Engineer
Zendesk
2023 - 2024
Built backend automation and tooling that cut integration issues by 50% and saved $30K+/quarter. Wrote Python scripts for data analytics and operational automation integrated with Snowflake. Developed and maintained functional and integration tests in RSpec and Jsonnet; created synthetic monitoring tests. Managed AWS infrastructure (multi-account setup) and Kubernetes workloads supporting production deployments. Configured CloudWatch and Datadog monitoring to improve system observability and reduce failures by 10%.
Junior Java Developer
EPAM Systems
2022 - 2022
Built backend microservices with Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate; designed REST APIs with clean service-layer separation. Built and optimized SQL databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL); contributed to schema migrations with Flyway. Applied TDD throughout development using JUnit and Mockito; hardened security with Spring Security.
Software Engineer (Contractor)
Ingenious
2021 - 2022
Built RESTful APIs and backend services in Java/Spring Boot and Ruby on Rails across multiple client projects. Designed and maintained relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) - schema design, query optimization, ORM with Hibernate. Implemented microservices architectures; secured applications with Spring Security, OAuth2, and JWT. Integrated third-party APIs and external services; wrote unit and integration tests (JUnit, Mockito, TestNG). Configured AWS Lambda functions and set up CloudWatch alerts for application monitoring.

Skills

ci-cd
devops
full-stack
java
kubernetes
node
react
ruby
english
polish
russian
ukrainian