Summary
Ihor Lubenets is a Senior Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading payment and billing engineering at Sixt SE, where he builds PCI‑DSS compliant payment infrastructure and scalable invoicing platforms. He combines hands‑on architecture skills (Java, Go, microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform) with team leadership, guiding cross‑functional teams from technical lead to senior management. Ihor has repeatedly delivered complex financial systems—designing secure payment zones, gateway integrations, and event‑sourced billing engines—while maintaining production resilience at scale. His background spans web and backend development from startups to enterprise, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for both legacy systems and cloud‑native modernization. Based in Germany with a master’s in economic cybernetics, he brings a rare mix of payments domain expertise, security-first engineering, and operational ownership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree economic cybernetics, Master's degree economic cybernetics at Poltav'skij Nacional'nij Tehnicnij Universytet imeni Yuriya Kundratiuka
English, Russian, Ukrainian