Gene Ponomarenko is a Lead Backend Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping cloud-native web services, APIs, and scalable backend systems. Based in Ukraine, he blends deep backend expertise in Node.js and Go with operational skills across Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker and AWS, and routinely authors technical documentation and supports customers. At Teradek he leads R&D and architecture for cloud services while mentoring team members and driving production-ready APIs. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved backend Windows parsing, added TLS and CORS support to the minimalistic gobetween load balancer, reflecting a pragmatic focus on interoperability and security. His background in systems engineering and radioelectronics gives him a strong systems-level perspective that informs reliable distributed designs.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
junior Specialist, Computer Networks and Systems, junior Specialist, Computer Networks and Systems at Odessa National 'I.I. Mecnikov' University
Bachelor's degree, Radioelectronics, Bachelor's degree, Radioelectronics at National Aviation University
:cloud: Modern & minimalistic load balancer for the Сloud era
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
Contributions summary:Gene primarily contributed to the backend of the "gobetween" project, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements. They addressed issues related to parsing backend configurations on Windows systems. Key contributions include adding TLS support for Docker discovery, implementing CORS support for the API, and updating related dependencies. These changes enhance the functionality, security, and usability of the load balancer's API.
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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