Position: Senior Software Engineer
Category: Scala
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 8

Created new in-house services for the customer to replace expensive external APIs (savings of $100k–250k in costs).

Optimized stream apps to handle more than 3 million messages per hour from Kafka and other sources. 

Drove system architecture discussions and decisions on several projects with lead developers to bring software to production quality.
Expert in developing streaming & batch big data solutions using Apache Spark, Akka Streams, and Kafka. I am also interested in Scala backend development. Have experience as a technical interviewer, mentor, and Scala bootcamp trainer. 

Frameworks: Apache Spark, Akka Streams (+ Akka Actors), Kafka Streams. 

Databases and data warehouses used: Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra 

Other from Scala ecosystem: cats, http4s, doobie

Other tech: Presto/Trino, ElasticSearch, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes
I'm OK with part-time or short term projects.