Ievgen Kapinos
Senior Backend Engineer at UP42
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolIevgen Kapinos is a senior backend engineer with 15+ years of experience, currently shaping backend at UP42 in Berlin. He specializes in the Java ecosystem and pairs software architecture, performance optimization, and cloud-first delivery to build scalable, data-driven solutions. At Zalando, he designed a from-scratch customer data app that processes roughly 20 million bi-directional updates per day for 70+ million users, running 30+ microservices on Kubernetes and integrating with AWS and CRM tools. He has led teams, conducted technical interviews, mentored colleagues, and given technical presentations, while also delivering significant independent work on high-impact projects. With a career spanning finance, oil & gas, and e-commerce, he brings hands-on coding depth, pragmatic architecture, and a knack for tackling long-running tasks—and he is based in Berlin, always ready to learn new skills and take on new challenges.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Control Systems and Technologies, Master's degree Information Control Systems and Technologies at Sevastopol State Technical University
Russian, English, Ukrainian, German
Github Skills (20)
menu9
off-canvas8
mmenu7
off-canvas-menu7
drawer7
sliding6
js5
webapp5
pure-react-carousel5
javascript4
slick4
markercluster4
react4
canvas3
react-wrapper3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Home24/react-image-magnifier
Feb 2016 - May 2016
A react component that accepts a high-res source image and produces a magnifier window on mouse hover over the part of the image the cursor is over
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 months
react-componentreactimageresmouse
Home24/react-slick
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 15 days
reactsliderreact-carouselcarouselreact-carousel-component
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