Participated in event site layout planning, organized massage zone for runners, helped with starter packs distribution before the run and supported the coordinating team during the event.

Community Volunteer

Bachelor of Science - BS

Master of Science (M.Sc.)

Engineering Intern responsible for mechanical design of spherical robot (CAD software) and programming micro-controllers in C.

Engineering Intern

Full stack Web Developer responsible for the admin panel and minor backend enhancements in a web application that introduced customer self-service to a CNC milling company.

Software Engineer

• Full-stack developer on a global Platform Engineering team, building reusable systems and UI components adopted across the Finance Engineering division.
• Delivered Goldman Sachs’ first enterprise Tableau integration, enabling scalable data visualization workflows within internal platforms.
• Developed front-end applications using AngularJS, ES6 JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and back-end services in Java.
• Collaborated with international teams on infrastructure components, promoting consistency and reusability across business units.

• Led the migration of IMDb’s core API platform (serving 250M+ MAUs) from a monolithic REST architecture to Federated GraphQL—built entirely on AWS Lambda and designed to operate at Amazon-scale.
• Owned cross-org architecture design, ownership boundaries, and observability tooling, ensuring a reliable and maintainable distributed GraphQL system.
• Developed core infrastructure using AWS CDK (Infrastructure as Code) and implemented performance-critical components in Node.js on serverless compute.
• Authored a widely-read 3-part Federated GraphQL series for the AWS Compute Blog, sharing practical insights and architectural strategies.
• Spearheaded expansion of IMDb Localized Search to Latin languages, designing and implementing the Elasticsearch-based solution for multilingual indexing and relevance tuning.
• Led development of an ML-based system for automatic language tagging of IMDb image assets, from prototype to production, leveraging serverless architectures for scalability.
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Senior Software Development Engineer III

Engineering Intern responsible for creating 3D models in CAD software (SolidWorks & Autodesk Inventor) and programming CNC milling machines.

• Designed and built distributed systems across major cloud providers including AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, and Oracle Cloud (OCI), ensuring reliability, scalability, and multi-cloud resilience.
• Led architecture and development of serverless infrastructure powering secure data exchange pipelines across enterprises.
• Engineered core systems for managing data-sharing infrastructure, with support for 5TB+ file transfers and seamless integration between heterogeneous environments.
• Worked across a broad ecosystem of modern data platforms, including Snowflake, Databricks, S3, GCS, SFTP, R2, and Redshift.
• Drove initiatives to standardize multi-cloud infrastructure patterns, optimizing for performance, security, and cost-efficiency.

Principal Software Engineer

• Led a fully remote engineering team of 9 across different timezones, growing from 5 engineers through targeted, global hiring.
• Implemented an async-first SDLC process, resulting in predictable release cycles, fewer incidents, and stronger cross-functional collaboration.
• Designed a structured, inclusive interview process, successfully hiring and onboarding engineers from diverse countries and backgrounds.
• Mentored two engineers into tech lead roles, promoting a culture of autonomy, ownership, and continuous professional development.
• Established clear communication rhythms, using structured check-ins and sprint goal alignment to maintain focus across timezones.

Engineering Manager

Engineering Intern responsible for designing and planning of robotized industry processed in Siemens Tecnomatix RobotExpert software. Bachelor thesis written in cooperation with Siemens: Design of robotized palletizing process.

Founder

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