Андрій

Andriy Drozhko
Java Team Lead · Engineering Manager
Ukraine, Cherkasy · [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) · [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)
Java · Spring Boot · REST · PostgreSQL · Kafka · Kubernetes
SUMMARY
10+ years in backend engineering on Java, six of them writing production code day to day, then two years leading a cross-
functional team of 9 and four years as Engineering Manager of up to 3 teams (18 engineers) at PitchBook, on a reliability-critical,
high-load financial-data platform. Stayed in architecture decisions, technical design, and code review throughout. Now looking
for a Team Lead role where the technical decisions are mine again.
EXPERIENCE
Engineering Manager, PitchBook (via SPD Technology)
Jan 2022 – Jun 2026 · Ukraine, Cherkasy (Remote)
• Owned architecture end to end across 30+ microservices (Core, BFF, Frontend) and data-ingestion pipelines on a reliability-
critical financial-data platform.
• Stayed hands-on in technical design and code review: made and reviewed design decisions across the platform and reviewed
the team's code alongside the Team Leads.
• Drove the on-prem to cloud migration: moved 25+ microservices to Google Cloud and Kubernetes with two teams in about
six months, running a full parallel copy so traffic could switch back instantly.
• Strengthened reliability: co-developed the incident-response plan and led post-incident improvements to harden core
services and reduce recurrence.
• Introduced engineering standards: code review, architecture patterns, technical documentation, and agile ceremonies,
backed by automated feature-test coverage.
• Championed AI-assisted engineering: evaluated, piloted, and rolled out tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot), managing
adoption and buy-in to lift developer productivity and review throughput.
• Directed delivery across up to 3 cross-functional teams (10 Backend, 3 Frontend, 3 QA/SDET, 2 Team Leads), aligning
priorities, estimates, and technical trade-offs with product and stakeholders.
• Managed and developed people: 1:1s, performance reviews, growth and career plans, coaching engineers and aspiring
leads; reorganized teams and hired Backend and cross-functional Team Leads.
• Tech stack: Java (8 / 11 / 17 / 21+), Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Grafana, Prometheus
Team Lead, SPD Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · Ukraine, Cherkasy
• Led a cross-functional team of 9 (5 Backend, 2 Frontend, 2 QA), owning technical direction and code quality.
• Wrote and prioritised the technical requirements: turned product requests into technical tasks, sized them, and set the
order the team worked in.
• Made the architecture decisions for the team's services: patterns, service boundaries, and the data model, with the trade-
offs written down so the team could follow the reasoning.
• Reviewed code and technical designs day to day, and owned delivery end to end from requirements to production.
• Mentored engineers one-on-one, guiding technical growth, onboarding new team members, and supporting their
progression.
• Tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, JdbcTemplate, PostgreSQL, SQL, REST, Grafana, Prometheus
Java Developer, SPD Technology
May 2014 – Jan 2020 · Ukraine, Cherkasy
• Six years of hands-on Java development, growing from Junior Java Developer, delivering backend services for enterprise and
fintech clients.
• Built and maintained a task-processing system and the data feeds behind it, from ingestion through to the platform’s own
data model.
• Integrated third-party data sources, which was the bulk of the hands-on work: external feeds, their formats and quirks, and
mapping them into internal structures.
• Tuned memory settings on the data-feed workers so the number of tasks running in parallel could be adjusted, trading RAM
per worker against throughput.
• Tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, JdbcTemplate, PostgreSQL, Flyway, SQL
SKILLS
Languages: Java (8 / 11 / 17 / 21+), SQL, JavaScript / TypeScript (beginner)

Backend & Architecture: Spring Boot, Spring Data, microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, concurrency &
multithreading, data modeling, distributed systems, high-load systems, large-scale batch data processing
Data & Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Hibernate, Flyway, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, Google Cloud (GCP), AWS
(Redshift), data-pipeline scalability, Terraform / ArgoCD / RabbitMQ (beginner)
Reliability & Observability: incident response, post-incident reviews, monitoring & alerting, Grafana, Prometheus
Practices: system design, code review, Agile (Scrum / Kanban), delivery ownership & estimation
Leadership: team leadership, change management, process & tooling adoption, team reorganization, hiring & interviewing,
mentoring, performance management, cross-functional coordination, stakeholder communication, product sense
AI tooling: Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot
Spoken languages: Ukrainian (native), English (B2)
EDUCATION
M.Sc. & B.Sc., Applied Mathematics · B.Sc., Software Engineering, taken in parallel part-time · Bohdan Khmelnytsky NU,
Cherkasy (2013–2016)