Alena Kucharenka
Senior Software Engineer at DraftKings Inc.
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlena Kucharenka is a Senior Software Engineer based in Ireland with a 14-year technology career and recent focus on backend and platform engineering. She has shipped production systems across companies like DraftKings, HubSpot and Zendesk, spanning Java microservices, iOS SDKs in Swift, and NLP work at IBM Watson. A self-taught iOS developer, she built a top-10 US App Store music app with 20,000+ users in three months, demonstrating rapid learning and product-minded execution. Her background blending classical computer science (BSc with a 3.9 GPA) and hands-on product delivery gives her strengths in system design, performance-sensitive engineering, and shipping customer-facing features. Notably, she has transitioned fluidly between mobile SDKs, backend microservices and applied NLP, bringing cross-domain perspective to complex engineering problems.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at European Humanities UniversityBSc, Computer Systems, 3.9 out of 4, BSc, Computer Systems, 3.9 out of 4 at University of Limerick
English, Russian
Github Skills (11)
ios8
swift8
objective-c8
sdk7
macos7
xcode6
zendesk6
cocoapods6
carthage5
react-native2
mobile1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/ios_sdk_demo_apps
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
This repository contains sample iOS code and applications which use our SDKs
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
ios-sampleobjective-csdkssdkswift
zendesk/zendesk_sdk_ios
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Zendesk Mobile SDK for iOS
Contributions:2 commits, 2 branches, 4 comments in 22 days
mobile-sdkzendesksdksdk-for-iosios
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