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Work Experience

Senior Python Developer, Infrastructure, Commodities eTrading
Citi, Innovation Lab TLV
2021 – Present

• Led, designed, and coded a new testing framework from scratch using reactive programming and pytest-bdd, automating manual regulatory activities.
• Achieved a double boost in the acceleration of CI unit testing process through improved parallelism, addressing pytest-xdist logic.
• Built and fixed packages using conda, supporting the Python part of the FPG (forward propagation graph) engine.
• Improved the internal Symphony bot connected with deployment systems (uDeploy, TeamCity, Jenkins) and implemented compliance reporting.
• Tracked middleware migrations, including solace and artifactory.
• Fixed floating point arithmetic for pricing strategies.

Lead Software Engineer
VK, Tarantool

• Introduced coding tests on Lua and implemented the concept of using Luatest as a new testing framework.
• Supported test infrastructure written in Python, fixing and writing workflows in GitHub Actions (CI/CD).
• Provided support for CI runners (x86-64, arm64) and delivered Tarantool docker images for various operating systems (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora).
• Deployed and set up performance infrastructure using InfluxDB + Grafana + CI/CD.
• Built Tarantool packages and modules, updating S3 (VK Cloud/Mail.ru Cloud Solutions).
• Led a team of junior SDETs.

Automation Engineer
Deutsche Bank, Technology Center

• Coded tests in Python using PyTest, focusing on stability and performance testing.
• Supported the regression testing system's stability and improved performance testing.
• Set up visualization of performance metrics using VictoriaMetrics and Grafana.

Skills

Programming Languages: Python, C/C++, Lua.

Tools and Technologies: Linux, Git, Conda, PyTest, PyTest-BDD, Grafana, Docker, InfluxDB, MongoDB, S3, Jira, Confluence, TeamCity, GitHub Actions, IBM UrbanCode Deploy.

Language Proficiency

• English: IELTS 2020 - 7.0 (C1)
• Russian: Native

Education

• MBA, Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
• MSc in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Moscow, Russia.
• BSc in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Moscow, Russia.