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Vladyslav Baidak

Co-Founder & CEO, Lead Backend Engineer

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About me

Always doing the best, paying attention to the quality and delivering the right product in time, our mission is more than just creating software. I’m very proud being part of this great team here, at Scalified.

Work experience

Co-founder, Lead Software Engineer
Scalified LLC
Kyiv, Ukraine | Bucharest, Romania
2016 - Present

  • Advanced insurance products delivery: designed and developed an advanced ecosystem comprising over 15 microservices, leveraging Domain-Driven Design (DDD) architecture and CQRS approach, significantly enhancing system modularity and scalability.
  • Corporate frameworks integration: led the integration of the JES framework for JBoss platform applications and initiated the strategic migration to the Quarkus/Gluon stack, improving application performance and modernizing the tech stack.
  • DevOps engineering: deployed and configured Docker Swarm from scratch, later transitioning to a Kubernetes cluster, implementing continuous integration, and streamlining middleware and application deployments for enhanced operational efficiency.
  • Tech leadership: formed and led a high-performing, motivated, and results-oriented team, driving significant improvements in productivity and team cohesion.
  • Application design and development: led the design and development of diverse applications, harnessing the strengths of microservice architecture.
  • Tech leading and mentoring: mentored team members in design patterns,distributed transactions, and microservices orchestration approaches,fostering skill development and project excellence.
  • Continuous delivery: configured and maintained fully automated continuous delivery processes company-wide.

Senior Software Engineer, Backend Team
EPAM Systems, Barclays Investment Bank
Remote
2013 - 2016

  • Server-side applications development: implemented various server-side banking applications handling over 1000 transactions per second.
  • Continuous integration: set up automated build and deployment processes with code coverage checking and reporting.
  • Monitoring and logging: deployed and configured ELK stack, centralizing event tracing and application log monitoring in a unified platform.

Education

Master, Network Technologies and System Administration
Computer Academy Step
2009 - 2012

Master, Economics
Dnipro University of Technology
2004 - 2009

Student, Physics & Mathematics
Dneprodzerzhynsk Technical Physics and Mathematics Lyceum
2000 - 2004

Certificates

Advanced expertise in networking fundamentals, routing, switching, and WAN access, IT infrastructure and system management.

Certified Tester Foundation Level

iSQI

CCNA Exploration Routing Protocols and Concepts

Cisco Systems

LAN Switching and Wireless

Cisco Systems

CCNA Exploration Accessing the WAN

Cisco Systems

CCNA Exploration Network Fundamentals

Cisco Systems

IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software

Cisco Systems

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

  • Kotlin
  • Java
  • Groovy
  • Bash

Frameworks & Libraries

  • Spring
  • Java EE
  • Quarkus
  • AxonFramework

Cloud & Containerization

  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Ansible

Databases

  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • Oracle 12c
  • PostgreSQL
  • Mongo DB

Data & Messaging Systems

  • JMS
  • Kafka

Business-Specific Systems

  • JES
  • Gluon
  • BPS, PDV, MCM, RMS, EPS, SES

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