Senior Software Development Engineer

Illia Pogodin

Seattle, WA 206-***-**** *****.*******@*****.*** LinkedIn

Professional Profile

Experienced Software Development Engineer and Architect with a 12 years track record of delivering Distributed and

Mission-critical Systems in high-agility development environments.

Experience and Impact

Salesforce, Bellevue, WA, 2019 to 2023

SENIOR MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF: UI SDK, SIRE

API Delivery & Support for Company-Wide Infrastructure (UI SDK):

Delivered a GraphQL UI integration into Salesforce infrastructure to let customers, such as Airbnb and Bank of America, and internal engineers work with GQL API efficiently.

Designed and delivered a modular system for GraphQL inner implementation, which allowed other teams to inject custom functionality into Salesforce's API; this system promoted code reusability, simplified the development process, and allowed teams to inject custom revenue increasing filters.

Delivered comprehensive testing and monitoring strategy for existing REST APIs as well as GQL API.

Supervised the quality of all delivered features by two teams consisting of 15-25 people as a part of security champion responsibility.

Initiated and delivered new security assessment process, saving approximately 200 working hours per year for teams.

Optimizations for the Trust First Responders Team (SIRE):

Redesigned and delivered company-wide system for training against phishing attacks. Excluded vulnerabilities that cost hundreds of human hours per year.

Delivered initiated environment synchronization incident handling feature, resulting in significant efficiency improvements for the mission critical customer teams.

Wargaming, Bellevue, WA, 2018 to 2019

SENIOR SDE

Backend Development Team Leadership:

Rebuild and delivered wargaming promotion engine.

Delivered a business objects validation system engine.

Led redesigns of price system flexibility and configurability, as well as operation-log storage.

Rebuilt database structure for products definition platform.

IGT/DoubleDown Interactive, Seattle, WA, 2016 to 2018

SDE 3

IGT Software Development 2016

Server-Side Platform - Old OSGI-Based Monolith and New Microservices Solution:

Designed and delivered low-latency high-throughput microservices for IGT system.

Redesigned and delivered one of the key services, reducing latency by 10X.

Code-reviewed, fixed, improved, and extended several other services.

Migrated all modules of the OSGI monolith to a single version of Scala.

Defined metrics standard for company services, and delivered it as a library.

Prior Experience, 2010 to 2016

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Deutsche bank: Delivered optimization for the Large Investment Fund Platform; this resulted in a 20% improvement in calculation execution time, removal of problem-causing parts in the dao layer, and increased efficiency and supportability of the back-end system

Deutsche bank: Leaded the move to Git from SVN, reducing the dev-qa-dev cycle by 10%.

Belleron: Designed and delivered a Storm-based distributed computation solution for an anti-fraud initiative for a large bank, which included building a bank emulator system used by QA for load and functional testing.

Alertme: Developed and delivered high-throughput, low-latency REST-API service, and UI for a smart home technology startup.

Ocado: Delivered a new module for handling vacation/sick/absence/swapping in a time management system for employees targeting big market players with a large number of staff.

eMotion: Reworked the UI of a call management system to hit the backend 2.5 times less, while concurrently doubling test coverage to bring all the logic under control.

Education and Credentials

Masters in Applied Mathematics

National University Of Ukraine, Faculty of Cybernetics, Kyiv, Ukraine

Technical Skills

Algorithms, Data Structures, Concurrent Programming, Design Patterns, Java, Spring framework, JDBC, JPA, Kafka, Hibernate, Liquibase, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Tomcat, Jetty, Maven, JUnit, JBehave, Mockito, TDD, Scrum, Reviews, Monitoring, Profiling, Git, Perforce, SVN, JSP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery

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