Position: Principal Cloud Engineer
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

- Predicted and removed the upper cap for the company growth.
- Delivered a solution that saves a lot of company resources.
- Built a reliable pipeline for managing geo-distributed financial transactions with minimal additional latency
- Hired and established a team of individuals who grown-up to become solid professionals working together in sync and with ever-increasing effectiveness.
- Helped customers optimize a delivery pipeline + production
Currently, working as a Principal Cloud Engineer in a company that, among other great things builds the app Platform in Law, Financials, and Professional services. We do build that Platform with a lot of integrations, links, connections, and different ways of doing things. And it is awesome!
Before that was working as a Solution Architect in a distributed cloud payment gateway. The most technically advanced system and the system with the toughest business requirements. Have a business need for committing tens of thousands *financial* transactions that have to pass on four different geo-distributed regions? Yes, I did that. Need intermediate latency less than a blink of an eye? Yes, we can do that. Without losing even a fraction of a cent while having a pretty complex fee accounting. That was mind-blowing.
Yet before that - I was working as a Senior Software Engineer at a cloud printing company. Yes - you can have a world-class well-formed polygraph service - and all of that in the cloud. Solving different logistics and business optimizations, seeing how your commitment saves money for the company - was really nice!
Also - having experience in online advertising - distributing tons of traffic to customers that will be most interested in exactly those ads, seeing good customer feedback to those online ads - that is inspiring.
And, even before that - experience in the eCommerce field. Being part of a development team of the biggest online retailing platforms in Ukraine and then using those products by myself - immediate feedback and working on the improvements. Good experience to have that in the background.
Looking for opportunities in clouds. The best would be:
- fintech company proficient in algo-trading, investment robo-advisors, money flow automation, trading strategy advisors, etc.
- advanced cloud companies whose business solely relies on scalability for a massive number of users, quick responses, geo
- big data and AI companies which want to build a continuous data pipeline or move from batch processing ETL to streaming and data automation.