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Software Engineer · Tech Lead
github.com/mbesida Distributed Systems · Cloud-Native Solutions

SKILLS
SUMMARY
ADVANCED

Scala Go Java
Software engineer with expertise in the JVM ecosystem (mostly Scala and Java) and Golang. Worked on projects
WORKING KNOWLEDGE from various domains — blockchain, finance, location services, e-gaming, food delivery, and more. Contributed to
open-source projects. Experience in building monolith web apps as well as cloud-native apps. Worked with
Rust TypeScript Python Solidity
Kubernetes and AWS services. Led teams of 4–6 engineers on several projects. Interested in building reliable
SCALA / JVM distributed systems, software architecture, cloud services, and functional programming.
Play Akka / Pekko cats-effect ZIO

Ox Spark Spring Boot EXPERIENCE

GO
Tech Lead · Software Engineer Jan 2024 – May 2026
Fiber sqlc go-ethereum libp2p
Boostylabs 2 yr 5 mo
gRPC
Beyond the projects below, ran pre-sale technical estimations and interviewed candidates for the company's open
STORAGE engineering positions.

Postgres Oracle SQLite MongoDB DeCash

Redis DynamoDB BadgerDB PebbleDB Designed and built a decentralized stablecoin exchange from scratch on top of existing EVM smart contracts; led a
team of 4 engineers.
CLOUD & DEVOPS
Go TypeScript Postgres Docker AWS (EC2, RDS) GitHub Actions Fiber React go-ethereum sqlc
AWS Docker Kubernetes Helm
Akave (partially open-sourced — akavesdk)
Terraform GitHub Actions Jenkins
Built the core platform and SDK plus monitoring, testing and deployment tooling; integrated with EVM smart
MESSAGING contracts and Filecoin / PDP.

Kafka Go Rust Solidity BadgerDB PebbleDB Docker GitHub Actions go-ethereum sqlc libp2p gRPC

WEB3 tokio alloy

Foundry Solidity EVM
Software Engineer Feb – Dec 2022
OBSERVABILITY Plutus Inc. (Abra) 11 mo

Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Supported and developed features for the main service API platform team. Incrementally migrated the API: Ruby on
Rails → Play → tapir + http4s (ZIO-based). Supported Go services.
AI TOOLING
Scala Go Ruby Postgres GitHub Actions Play Framework tapir ZIO http4s Fiber Slick sqlc
Claude Code GH Copilot Codex

Typeless
Software Engineer Mar – Dec 2021
Deliveroo via Softserve Inc. 10 mo
EDUCATION
Designed and implemented an internal search service for customer support. Supported platform services.
M.Sc., Computer Science
Scala Go Python Elasticsearch S3 DynamoDB AWS (OpenSearch, Lambda) Kubernetes Helm Terraform
National Technical University of Ukraine — “Kyiv
CircleCI Datadog Kafka Spark cats-effect
Polytechnic Institute”
Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science ·
2008 – 2014 Software Engineer May – Sep 2020
NewAgeIO 5 mo

CERTIFICATION Developed and supported platform services and shared libraries for an e-gaming platform.

Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Scala Elasticsearch Postgres Docker Kubernetes Akka Tapir http4s Kafka

Programmer
Jan 2013 · Score 93% Software Engineer Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Nezasa via Bytebrand AG 1 yr 1 mo

LANGUAGES Developed new features, maintained the codebase and integrated with third-party systems for a travel-industry platform
Ukrainian Native (nezasa.com).

English Advanced Scala MongoDB Heroku Play Framework Akka

Spanish Beginner
Team Lead · Software Engineer Nov 2016 – Oct 2018
IOV42 2 yr

Designed and developed the infrastructure, core and API layers of a private blockchain platform (iov42.com); led a team
of 4–6 developers.

Scala JavaScript Cassandra Postgres Node.js Play Framework gRPC web-sockets Akka
Software Engineer Nov 2015 – Aug 2016
HERE Technologies via Intellias 10 mo

Maintained the Places API; developed new features and fixed bugs.

Java Scala Spring MVC Akka HTTP

Scala / Java Developer Sep 2011 – Oct 2015
Luxoft 4 yr 2 mo

Delivered several projects in the finance and trading domain for Deutsche Bank and Citi. Responsible for development
and support.

Java Scala Oracle MongoDB Spring Akka Apache Storm

Trainee Jul 2011
NetCracker 1 mo

Designed and implemented a Service Questionnaire subsystem of a CRM system during a traineeship
(telecommunications domain).

Java Oracle JSP / Servlets EJB

TRAINING & COURSES

Jan 2023 AWS Developer Associate · freeCodeCamp.org
Oct 2022 Cats-Effect · Rock the JVM

Jan 2022 DevOps Catalog, Patterns & Blueprints · Udemy
2013 Functional Programming Principles in Scala · Coursera
2010–11 NetCracker Training Center · NTUU “KPI”

2010 Grid Computing Courses · Ukrainian-Korean Educational Center, NTUU “KPI”