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Lead Software Engineer / Python

Senior backend software engineer (Python) with 20+ years building distributed, data-intensive services. Strong in performance profiling/optimization, concurrency, and production reliability in Linux environments. Technical leader with architecture ownership, mentoring experience, and a focus on raising engineering standards.


Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $150,000

Hourly rate: $85

Nationality: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Ukraine

Residency: πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ Belgium


Experience

Soldier
Ukrainian armed forces
2022 - 2023
Joined Ukrainian Armed Forces in response to military aggression by Russia.
Senior Software Engineer
SD Solutions
2020 - 2024
Customer: US client Project: Housing market analysis platform Tech stack: Python, Airflow, PostgreSQL, dbt, AsyncIO, OpenAI, LangChain, spaCy, NLTK, -- Developed scalable pipelines for data aggregation and AI-driven post-processing analytics Customer: PokerStars Project: System configuration platform Tech stack: Python, asyncio, Django, DRF, Celery, JavaScript, ReactJS, PostgreSQL -- Built a platform enabling automated server deployment and configurations in the company's data center Project: Internal reporting system Tech stack: Java 14, Gradle, Spring Boot, Vaadin, Docker compose, Rest-API, PostgreSQL -- Designed and implemented a reporting platform providing analytics from internal data center
Senior backend developer
EPAM
2019 - 2020
Customer: Kingfisher plc Project: Internal data proxy system Tech stack: Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, Scala, Gradle, Spring Boot, Rest-API, JavaRX -- Migrated external REST API resources into an efficient internal proxy service
Senior Software Engineer
SoftServe inc.
2017 - 2019
Customer: TripAdvisor Tech stack: Java, Python, Gradle, PostgreSQL, Hive SQL, Spark, REST-API, Linux, Bash, Apache Velocity, AmpScript Project: Partners integrations -- Developed multiple integrations with third-party web services -- Core system development and functionality extension Project: Mail platform migration -- Led technical aspects of migrating an email system (30M emails/month) from Salesforce to custom Java-based infrastructure -- Performed template migration from AmpScript to Apache Velocity framework -- Developed pipelines for data migration from Hive to PostgreSQL
Software Engineer
Cyber Force Group s.r.o.
2016 - 2017
Project: Fin-tech platform SDK.Finance Tech stack: Java EE, Python, Spring, Maven, Gradle, JBoss, Wildfly, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Rest-API, Junit, Mockito -- Built integrations with SEPA and paysafe.com -- Enhanced core financial systems and developed an inventory accounting subsystem -- Developed a new subsystem for goods accounting
Software Engineer
Advanced Software Development
2015 - 2016
Project: bookingpal.com Tech stack: Java, Spring, Ant, Maven, MyBatis, MySQL, Rest-API, Web-Services -- Developed integrations and expanded core functionalities for a US-based vacation rental platform -- Participated in platform core development and functionality extension

Skills

python
english