Position: Java Team Lead
Category: Java
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 7

Took ownership on one of the most important flows in Taboola - Big Data processing project. Gaining full responsibility on desinging and supporting all the data incoming.
Sped up products configuration by 80% in time, taking part in designing and implementation of fully new microservices system mentoring and guiding Israel's developers along with doing lots of knowledge transfer sessions.
Made team a part of the on-call (24 hours) support for the whole project, being the first engineer from Ukraine who had access to PDs.
I have 6+ years of commercial experience using Java technological stack using best practices with broad experience in high-load systems working on offline systems to manage loads of data as well as production accessible systems managing 1k+ of daily usages. Proficient in troubleshooting and debugging as well as live support of project users.
For the last 4 years I have been working in Taboola, creating team from scratch, starting as a single developer and getting to managing 7 senior-level engineers (5 BE, 2 FE) from Ukraine and gaining ownership on one of the most important services systems - Data flow. As a team leader, I highly improved team's E2E ownership and business value understanding.
As a senior engineer I managed to take huge part in designing and creation of the new system for creating advertisement products, being responsible for the main parts of the application, mentoring 3 BE engineers from Israel and being in a position of Technical Lead of this application.
I am quite used to high-loaded systems with lots of data processing using Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark and Kafka Streams storing results in No-SQL databases, like Vertica, as well as MySQL, PostgreSQL (RDBMS).

I am looking for a Team Leader position, as I believe that I can bring lots of improvements using my skills in Agile methodologies, Scrum in particular. Business value awareness is my priority when building a successful team. I am sure I can be an asset for your project :)