Summary
Arseni Kavalchuk is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams. He has deep expertise in Java and Go, delivering production video-processing, IoT tracking, and AI-driven computer vision platforms deployed on Kubernetes. At Synesis he architected and launched complex microservices, optimized high-volume event search with Apache Ignite, and reduced CPU load by advocating int8 neural nets; most recently he contributes at Meta. Arseni combines strong technical delivery with people leadership—hiring and growing teams, automating CI for ML integration, and driving observability to hunt down memory leaks and performance bottlenecks. His background in building end-to-end pipelines (edge to cloud) and experience with BigQuery, Kafka, Cassandra and Grafana make him adept at turning research-grade AI into reliable production services. A former chemical-technology specialist by training, he brings analytical rigor and a systems-thinking approach uncommon among software engineers.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Specialist (Master's Degree), Chemical Technology and Engineering Faculty, 4.98/5, Diploma of Specialist (Master's Degree), Chemical Technology and Engineering Faculty, 4.98/5 at Belarusian State Technological University
English, Russian