Andrew Polovynka

Responsibilities:

• Pre-sales lead (from initial call to proposal): Architecture, sprints breakdown, resource planning, negotiate timelines and budgets, proposal preparation
• Project kick-off lead: resource allocation, position profile, interview team members (senior/lead), do initial architecture and coding, plan scope and sprints, BA requirements
• Unit lead activity: personal development plans, resource rotation, developer’s audit to company standards, leads growth plans
• Audit projects and processes to optimize company effectiveness

Achievements:

• By being proactive, extended project duration from 4 to 7 months proposing client new scope and features for the product;
• Saved several projects by leading investigations and bug fixing initiatives which allowed projects return to green zone;
• Done two major projects audits revealing game changing insights which lead to increase in hiring rate, reduced client dissatisfaction by 50% total and allowed to deepen the bond between client C-level and Company;
• Integrated custom matrix of competency for the unit to better; Run 15+ Lead/Expert level interviews including system design and smart flow question with high result value

Responsibilities:

• Company Overview: Leading provider of global language and business solutions dedicated to unlocking the full potential of communication
• Designed and executed combining of multiple complex data structures from different sources (API and DB) into single database
• Build Azure Data Factory pipelines and control data integrity
• Lead design and implementation of email forwarding solution on AWS serverless stack
• Leading provider of global language and business solutions dedicated to unlocking the full potential of communication

Project tech stack: Scrum, JIRA, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database, MySQL, Azure Data Lake, AWS Amplify, AWS Cognito, AWS SNS, AWS SQS, AWS SES, AWS CloudWatch

Achievements:

• Resulting dataset allowed to combine whole company finance data in single place and reduce overhaul in accounting software integrations 70+%;
• Developed and integrated full circle analytics: from analysis of raw API calls from UI and German-based database to fully structured and transaction-ready SQL DB with all relevant links and 3rd normal formula cleanup;
• Delivered Production ready POC on AWS serverless stack in 1 month with help of Middle FS Developer

Responsibilities:

• Leading and managing a team of Java engineers
• Architecture analysis of requirements and implementation
• Requirement gathering from clients
• Establishing and maintaining coding standards and best practices
• Conducting code reviews and providing feedback
• Participating in project planning and estimation activities
• Identifying technical risks and developing mitigation strategies
• Project name and description: Under NDA
• Fast-growing travel start-up and help create lifelong memories while building the world’s largest social network for travelers

Project domain: Travel

Team structure: 1 Lead, 3 Senior Java engineers, 2 QAs, 1 React engineer, 1 Architect, 1 Product Owner

Project tech stack: Scrum, JIRA, GraphQL, gRPC/Protobuf, GCP, GKE, GCP Logs, GCP PubSub, Bitbucket, Bitbucket Pipelines, Docker, Kotlin 1.7, Java 17, JUnit5/AsserJ, Spring Boot, Spring Boot Tests, MySQL, Redis

Achievements:

• Developed Kotlin-based MSA for a mid-sized project in the travel domain from scratch (starting from requirements gathering and architecture design to the working prototype and production stage);
• Initially proposed architecture proven to be a successful choice;
• Able to continuously deliver value, extend the team, and support team members in the war environment;
• Developed strong team culture allowing a high level of communication with the Client despite the difference in time zones (9 hrs difference) and high team morale

• Investigate AWS service and create POC based on them
• Work closely with stakeholders and architect to produce best solutions considering costs and time
• Lead the team to develop POCs into fully working MVPs
• Educate team to use new features and frameworks
• Project description: Green field cloud based Big data transformation and analysis project in HealthCare domain
• Project domain: HealthCare
• Project tech stack: Scrum, JIRA, Big Data, AWS EC2, AWS Glue, Apache Spark, AWS Batch, AWS EventBridge, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Step Functions, AWS Aurora, AWS DynamoDB, AWS CloudWatch, Java 8, Docker, JUnit, Mockito, Maven
• Achievements: Rapidly developed POC and compared several solutions in short time span; Lead initiative to write minimalistic data transformation library in close cooperation with architect; Learned completely new stack quite fast

• Mentor and educate team members
• Architecture analysis of requirements and implementation
• Run planning and high-level feature analysis including risk assessment
• Maintain and develop new SOA services
• Project description: Cross-platform mobile client for eLearning platform with SOA backend using full CI/CD circle
• Project domain: EdTech
• Project duration: 1.5 years
• Team structure: 3 React Native devs, 2 Java FS devs, QA, BA, PM, TL
• Project tech stack: Scrum, JIRA, Spring 5, Spring Cloud, Open Cloud Foundry, CF Stratos, Java 11, Swagger, Hibernate, JUnit, Mockito, Maven, JAXB, ActiveMQ, Splunk, DynaTrace, React Native, Axios, TypeScript, Google Firebase
• Achievements: lead a team in new (mobile) stack from POC to production ready; designed effective java backend with close collaboration with mobile team needs; able to identify communication issues between team and the client, and able to solve it in short time; effectively managed the workload of team giving and ability to learn and deliver at the same time

• Was leading project development/release cycle of 10 people, several modules at a time
• Several successful releases of new main products to customers and several simultaneous bug fix releases for different products (from epics and planning to development and prod delivery)
• Rapid POC development (quickly develop bare-bone of feature/fix to reduce idea-realization cycles)
• Extensive code reviews including completed cross repo features (GOF DP, project and global Best Practices, Java Frameworks usages)
• Ran continuous Retro/Improvement processes to make code and processes better
• Participated in de-centralizing parts of the big monolith into smaller micro-services
• Project description: A complex multi-maven project with a large number of action-teams
• The project had core functionality, which was customized for each client

Project domain: Insurance

Team structure: 3 Java full stack devs, 1 QA, 1 BA

Project tech stack: Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Angular 2, React, Elastic Search, ActiveMQ, ESB, babel.js, karma.js, bower.js, npm.js, gulp.js

• Full stack development of new features and bug fixes (requirements and impact analysis)
• Technical analysis of feature requests and bug fixes including release schedules and hrs estimation
• Code review on the project
• Refactoring old parts of an application using patterns and new frameworks
• POC projects development
• Was part of Git flow integration on the project, migration to Java 8 and adoption of several new frameworks on the project
• Project description: A complex multi-maven project with a large number of action-teams
• The project had core functionality, which was customized for each client
• Project domain: Insurance
• Duration: 6 month to one year
• Team structure: 3 Java full stack devs, 1 QA, 1 BA
• Project tech stack: Scrum, JIRA, Struts 2, Spring 3, Java 8, SpringWebFlow, Jersey, Camel, JSP, XML/JSON/YAML, Hibernate, JUnit, Mockito, Maven, Apache commons, JAXB, Apache CXF (REST), backbone.js, dust.js, require.js, quartz
• Achievements: Grown from trainee to senior learning wide range of full stack skills along the way; Developed few major features which in time became part of core project functionality; Projected code quality standards on wide span of projects and teams; Was involved in heavy knowledge transfer initiative and new members onboarding and mentoring, lead education lecturing