Summary
Andrei Veshtard is a seasoned Java/Kotlin software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building microservice backends and cloud-native applications, currently working with Quarkus, Java 21 and Kubernetes in Riga. He combines deep backend expertise—Spring, Hibernate, Liquibase/Postgres—with strong testing discipline (JUnit5, Mockito, Selenium) and a history of evolving from test engineer to SME and technical interviewer. Oracle Certified Java SE 8 Programmer, he brings an engineer’s rigor from a Telecommunications degree at the Military Academy of Belarus and a pragmatic focus on localization and DB versioning that often surfaces in his projects. Colleagues rely on him for resilient API design, incremental modernization (Java 8→17→21, Kotlin), and practical automation born from his early test-automation roots.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Telecommunications Engineering at Military Academy of Repablic of Belarus
English, French, Russian, Russian, Latvian