Ihor Tykhonenko
Senior Software Engineer at Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolIhor Tykhonenko is a Senior Software Engineer based in Moncton, Canada, with a decade-long background building secure, scalable full-stack systems and seven years of focused industry experience. He has driven backend and full-stack work at Varsity Tutors, optimizing MySQL at high scale, configuring Kubernetes autoscaling, and automating cloud infrastructure with Terraform while improving reliability through New Relic and OpsGenie. Ihor’s career spans enterprise healthcare and fintech-adjacent projects where he designed microservices, led CI/CD and migration efforts between AWS and Azure, and integrated security testing into delivery pipelines. He is fluent in Ruby on Rails, React, and container orchestration, and has hands-on expertise with Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, Redis, and background job tuning for high-load environments. Beyond implementation, he contributes to architectural decisions and cross-functional collaboration, frequently on-call to resolve production incidents—an indication of both deep technical ownership and operational discipline. He also maintains a personal tech blog (tihandev.com), reflecting a habit of documenting learnings and practical engineering patterns.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Kharkiv Petro Vasylenko National Technical University of Agriculture
Английский
Github Skills (18)
menu9
animated8
codex6
simplify6
animation6
parsing5
rails4
ruby4
chatgpt-api3
java2
chatgpt2
openai-api2
slack-bot2
robot2
openai2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
codica2/simple-sidenav
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Simple, easily customizable, animated menu.
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 5 months
animated-menuanimationanimatedmenucustomizable
codica2/simple-scraper
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
A fairly simple gem that will help you simplify the parsing of web pages.
Contributions:32 commits in 1 month
ruby-gemrailsrubyparsinggem
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