Oleh
From Poland (UTC+2)
Oleh – Golang, Golang REST API, AI agent development
Oleh is a senior backend engineer with 16 years of commercial experience, specializing in platform engineering at the intersection of fintech, legal tech, and AI. He has deep ownership across security-critical infrastructure — from building PCI DSS-compliant payment systems to architecting document intelligence pipelines — and has recently moved into AI-native engineering practices, running Claude Code in production for CI/CD orchestration and fully agentic bug resolution. He operates confidently from a vague brief, communicates directly with CTOs and founders, and consistently owns architecture-level decisions rather than waiting to be handed a spec.
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Senior Software Engineer
A legal tech SaaS platform for structured data extraction from M&A agreements, serving large law firms globally. Core capabilities include high-accuracy document parsing, semantic search over extracted data, customizable views with advanced filtering and charting, and an AI chat interface. The platform handles enterprise-scale document workflows with strict per-customer access control.
- Restructured storage-layer data models in a large-scale refactoring effort, enabling fine-grained enterprise access control across customer datasets and workflows
- Reduced tokenization failures by 90% through search vector optimization, improving platform reliability and minimizing downstream pipeline failures
- Accelerated search performance by 30x by optimizing vector retrieval and launching metadata-aware semantic search
- Built the Views (Portals) feature — a customer-facing data framework with configurable charting, advanced filtering, and role-based access controls
- Created Grafana dashboards for production observability across the GCP/Kubernetes infrastructure
- Built internal AI engineering tooling using Claude Code, including a fully agentic bug-resolution pipeline that reproduced issues locally, opened fix PRs, verified results, and produced code-review walkthroughs
Staff Software Engineer
A PCI-compliant fast checkout platform integrated directly into merchant e-commerce flows, handling payment credential collection, customer authentication against card networks (Visa, Discover), and end-to-end payment processing. Served merchants and their customers at high availability across five years of scaling and security-critical growth.
- Owned security architecture including encryption-at-rest, tokenization, and network isolation — contributing to zero security incidents over five years
- Designed and deployed HashiCorp Vault infrastructure for secret management and cryptographic operations across the platform
- Drove PCI DSS compliance across four consecutive successful audits; architected a secure card storage deployment using Terraform + Vault with a CircleCI-based infrastructure change pipeline for auditable, mission-critical updates
- Established the foundational Kubernetes cloud platform with distributed tracing, authentication, and integrity monitoring; provisioned all cluster infrastructure via Terraform
- Built the core Golang monolith spanning authentication, payments, and orders, scaling it into a multi-service payment platform
- Built API integrations with Visa and Discover; defined the card-tokenization blueprint for all future card-network integrations
- Architected ACH bank-payment integration including secure customer banking credential storage
- Introduced a shared internal Golang library of best practices and reusable service frameworks, adopted as the engineering standard across teams; recruited and mentored 12 engineers
- Set up CI/CD pipelines for 8 core microservices with Puppeteer/Headless Chrome automation scripts; reduced core service latency by 1.5–2x via load testing and optimization
- Maintained 99.95%+ SLA; migrated ~1M data records to PostgreSQL as part of a company merger integration
Senior Software Engineer
Independent quantitative trading research project — building a backtesting platform and running algorithmic strategy research on high-frequency financial data using Python and ML tooling.
- Re-engineered a backtesting platform, achieving 12x throughput improvement on quantitative strategy evaluation
- Conducted quantitative trading research using Python, Jupyter, and TensorFlow/Keras
- Built ETL pipelines processing high-frequency financial data into BigQuery
Senior Software Engineer
Event-driven data pipeline services for IoT device data, focused on accuracy, throughput, and quantitative analysis infrastructure.
- Built event-driven Golang and Kafka services that raised device-data accuracy by 45%.
Software Engineer
A workforce-management SaaS platform, with a focus on service reliability and automated testing discipline.
- Built REST and JSON-RPC Golang microservices for a workforce-management platform serving enterprise clients.
- Raised automated test coverage to 80%, cutting production incidents by 3x.