Eugene Koval
Development Team Lead at Sembly AI
Ukraine
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolEugene Koval is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience and more than a decade in senior and technical lead roles, currently heading development at Sembly AI. He specializes in backend and distributed systems, shipping AI-driven product components using Kafka, Celery, Docker/Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling, and has deep Python expertise from long-term roles at Yola and Lohika. Eugene has led and grown teams of 10+ across time zones, blending hands-on development with hiring, mentorship, and internal technical advocacy. Comfortable in both product and services environments, he excels at turning complex requirements into reliable systems and has a track record of building platforms from scratch while working remotely since 2014. Notably, his background spans telecom network automation and internet services administration, giving him practical operational insight often missing in pure software leaders.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University
English
Github Skills (20)
python-client10
behavior-driven-development8
queue8
python8
task-manager8
amqp8
redis8
cloudflare7
task-scheduler7
api7
task-queue7
distributed-lock6
gherkin6
bdd6
microservices5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yola/healthcheck
Feb 2015 - Mar 2019
Classes, which help Yola service to implement health checks for themselves
Contributions:11 PRs, 19 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 1 month
healthcheckshealth-checks
yola/teamsupport-python
Nov 2015 - Jul 2018
Python library for interfacing with the TeamSupport API
Contributions:81 commits, 26 PRs, 69 pushes in 2 years 8 months
python-libraryapipythonpython3
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