Summary
Grisha Temchenko is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years of broad experience building and stabilizing large-scale systems across JVM, Python scripting, and Unix environments. He has led data ingestion and real-time processing efforts for recommendation engines, driven testing automation and DevOps practices, and contributed to platform and data engineering at companies including Google and Kibo. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs strong algorithmic foundations and UML-driven design with deep QA, CI/CD, and load-testing expertise. His toolset spans Java/Scala/Groovy, Python, MySQL and NoSQL stores like Cassandra and MongoDB, reflecting a blend of backend performance focus and operational rigor. Based in New York, he also runs a software studio, indicating entrepreneurial initiative alongside enterprise engineering chops. A detail not always visible on résumés: he routinely bridges QA and engineering teams to turn brittle systems into maintainable, high-performance services.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Columbia University
Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
Russian, English, Greek