ma1iket
Senior Java Engineer
Senior Java developer, 6 years in. Currently at SoftaTech on an AI-first modular monolith — Java 21, Postgres, AWS — where most code is written through Claude and the project is configured around AI tooling: shared skills, MCPs, custom rules, context optimization. I'm on the on-call rotation and run Friday knowledge-shares on AI workflow improvements.
Before that, four years at Luxoft on Java 8–17 microservices (WebSphere → OpenShift, ActiveMQ, Oracle, REST + React on the frontend), with a lot of Java 8 → 17 and Spring → Spring Boot migration work. And before that, two years at Zyxit building a pair of Spring Boot + Angular monoliths with offline-first sync over RabbitMQ, EDS document signing, and a small in-house change-tracking framework I wrote for the admin panel.
On the side: deep work in Spring AI (advisers, prompt debugging, custom MCPs, custom RAG) and Claude Code skills, plus Flutter and Rust. I led an open-source debugger for Ink! smart contracts under a Polkadot Foundation grant — mapping DWARF symbols onto compiled Wasm, recruiting the team, shipping and passing review on the first milestone. The project stalled when the Foundation cut Ink! funding upstream, but I came out of it knowing how to start in a domain I don't yet have the foundations for and learn it on the way.
Experience: 6 years
Yearly salary: $50,000
Hourly rate: $50
Nationality: 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Residency: 🇺🇦 Ukraine