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Anya Skirko

St Petersburg,FL

Summary

13 years of software engineering experience with a primary focus on distributed systems. Proficiency in designing and reverse engineering of both monolithic and microservice based applications. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with 5 years of technical leadership experience.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Ethical Hacker, Freelance

HackerOne
Remote, FL
09.2023 - Current

As an ethical hacker I do:

  • black box and white box reverse engineering
  • exploitation
  • root cause analysis

Tech stack: cryptography, blockchains, complex distributed systems, EVM, Java, Go, Python, C, Solidity, Maven, Gradle, network protocols(including obviously p2p) and beyond

Cloud Applications Architect, Full-Time

Amazon
Remote, FL
07.2022 - 04.2023

As a member of the AWS professional services team I:

  • worked together with current and potential AWS enterprise customers in their cloud migration journey
  • used my technical expertise to help AWS enterprise customers to design the best solutions in order to achieve their cloud native development goals
  • consulted AWS customers on possible diaster recovery solutions that AWS cloud has to offer
  • provided support and troubleshooting activities in order to make sure enterprise AWS customers were getting the most seamless and effective solutions as possible

Tech stack: Java, Go, Python, MySQL, Git, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

Software Architect, Full-Time

Finicity
Remote, FL
11.2021 - 04.2022

As the person who was responsible for the data studies for potential Finicity customers I:

  • worked closely with potential customers in order to understand their requirements;
  • collaborated with data scientists in order to design and develop ETL pipelines for our potential customers;
  • lead pipelines development, support and maintenance;
  • was able to decrease pipelines runtime from months to hours due to the optimization I introduced;
  • was responsible for support of several AI based applications, and worked on refactoring of one of those;
  • identified multiple performance problems in supported software that after fixing resulted in the availability increase;
  • mentored some juniors a bit.

Tech stack: Python, AWS, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, GitLab

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Time

Backblaze
Remote, FL
01.2021 - 08.2021

As a senior developer in the storage team I:

  • participated in designing solutions to increase the durability of stored files;
  • designed effective copying solutions that were minimizing memory consumption;
  • developed a framework that was used to validate our multi server environment;
  • performed root cause analysis of several functional and non-functional problems that resulted in overall performance and throughput increase;
  • collaborated with the team in every day development and support activities.

Tech stack: Java, Python, Ant, Ansible, Cassandra, Git

Lead Software Engineer, Contract

Nike
Remote
10.2020 - 01.2021

As a lead developer in this short term contract I:

  • implemented several features;
  • fixed a few bugs;
  • helped several juniors to get up tp speed.

Tech stack: Java, AWS

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Time

JPMorgan Chase
Tampa, FL
11.2019 - 10.2020

As a senior developer in the payments team I:

  • lead multiple frameworks migrations;
  • mentored younger developers;
  • shared my knowledge with other team members;
  • fixed bugs and provided production support.

Tech stack: Java, Python, C, Git, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Time

EPAM Systems Inc
Tampa, FL
07.2016 - 11.2019

As a consultant in Epam System I worked with two customers: Citi and Raymond James. In both cases I was a key developer of the team. And:

  • designed and developed multiple software solutions;
  • provided technical guidance to the customer's team in order to make sure delivered software would be the best quality;
  • mentored new developers;
  • performed every day development and support activities .

Tech stack: Java, Python, Go, Oracle DB, AWS, Git, Jenkins

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Time

EPAM Systems Inc
Dnipro, Ukraine
11.2014 - 03.2016

As a consultant in Epam System I worked as a hands on tech lead on multiple e-commerce projects.

My responsibilities included:

  • analysis of customer's requirements;
  • design of the solution;
  • refactoring;
  • coordinating development teams' activities;
  • production support;
  • synchronization with other development teams;
  • mentoring.

Tech stack: Java, Hibernate, JDBC, Spring, JavaScript, MySQL DB, Python, Maven, Git, Jenkins

Software Engineer, Full-Time

ISD
Dnipro, Ukraine
02.2011 - 08.2014

Started as a developer but after two years I became a team lead. My responsibilities included:

  • new team members onboarding and mentoring;
  • coordination of development activities;
  • production support;
  • design of new solutions starting from requirements till deployment;
  • refactoring and redesign of existing systems.

Tech stack: Java, Hibernate, JDBC, JSF, JSP, Spring, Oracle DB, Python, Perl, Maven, Ant, SVN, Jenkins

Education

Bachelor of Science - Informatics

Oles' Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University
Dnipro, Ukraine
2012

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Java (10 years), Python (5 years), Go (2 years), Dart/Flutter (1 year) I'm comfortable with writing on C and JS as well but I don't want to state I know those
  • Frameworks and Libraries: Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Hibernate (5 years), Pandas (1 year)
  • Databases: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL (2 years), NoSQL databases (overall 2 years), Redis (2 years)
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (5 years), GCP (1 year)
  • DevOps: Docker (3 years), Kubernetes (2 years), Helm (< 1 year), Apache Camel (2 years), CDK (2 years), Terraform (3 years), CloudFormation (2 years)
  • Version Control: Git (9 years), SVN (4 years), Mercurial (2 years)
  • Others: REST (10 years), SOAP (4 years), GRPC(1 year), Shell scripting (10 years), OSGi (3 years)
  • And beyond I have wide expertise across different areas

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty

Timeline

Ethical Hacker, Freelance

HackerOne
09.2023 - Current

Cloud Applications Architect, Full-Time

Amazon
07.2022 - 04.2023

Software Architect, Full-Time

Finicity
11.2021 - 04.2022

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Time

Backblaze
01.2021 - 08.2021

Lead Software Engineer, Contract

Nike
10.2020 - 01.2021

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Time

JPMorgan Chase
11.2019 - 10.2020

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Time

EPAM Systems Inc
07.2016 - 11.2019

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Time

EPAM Systems Inc
11.2014 - 03.2016

Software Engineer, Full-Time

ISD
02.2011 - 08.2014

Bachelor of Science - Informatics

Oles' Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University
Anya Skirko