Summary
Arik Gorelik is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with 11+ years of experience building cloud-native, high-throughput systems across FinTech, Media, and Digital Asset Management. A hands-on engineering leader and certified Java Programmer and Scrum Master, he blends team building, coaching, and architecture work while staying deeply involved in the codebase. His technical breadth spans Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, reactive frameworks (Vert.x), Spring/Boot, GraphQL/REST, Kafka/messaging, and modern observability and CI/CD toolchains on AWS and Kubernetes. At Intuit he progressed through senior technical roles driving scalable services and delivery improvements, and he also runs operations at a small venture, demonstrating product and business fluency. Arik’s background in PKI, steganography/watermarking, and OpenBanking/OFX specs signals a knack for secure integrations and domain-specific protocols that most backend engineers don’t routinely encounter. He holds an MS in Computer Science and consistently couples pragmatic engineering with measurable productivity gains.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at California State University, Northridge
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Russian