Andrey Ponomarev is a seasoned Software Engineer II based in Oslo with over 20 years in software development and 14 years of hands-on Java experience building and operating enterprise systems. He has deep expertise in real-time payments and clearing platforms, Spring ecosystem, Hibernate, and resilient architectures (Vert.x, Hystrix, ZooKeeper), and routinely ships to diverse production environments. A Sun Certified Java Programmer and Certified Scrum Master, he blends disciplined TDD, refactoring and pair programming with a decade of Agile delivery at scale. He’s led small cross-functional teams as a Scrum master and stepped into offshore collaboration for clients across Denmark, Germany and the US. Beyond product work, Andrey has contributed to open-source testing infrastructure—improving LittleProxy tests by migrating to Mockito and increasing coverage—demonstrating a practical focus on quality and automation. Known for turning complex business requirements into reliable, maintainable solutions, he brings steady technical leadership to mission-critical payment and content systems.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Automatized System Software, Specialist, Automatized System Software at National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'
High performance HTTP proxy originally written by your friends at Lantern and now maintained by a stellar group of volunteer open source programmers.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:11 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrey focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure of the project. They upgraded the testing framework, replacing dependencies with mocks. This is evidenced by the refactoring of tests to use Mockito. The user also added new tests to increase test coverage.
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