Summary
Illia Danko is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems and web tools across Golang, C/C++, Java, Clojure, JavaScript/TypeScript and Python. He has moved from embedded and systems engineering into cloud-native microservices, designing production services and admin UIs for companies in media, SaaS and voice-AI domains using Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, gRPC, Elasticsearch and Kubernetes. Known for pragmatic focus on business needs, he pairs hands-on implementation (including cgo and FFI work) with troubleshooting and CI/CD automation to keep performance-critical pipelines running. Based in Lviv, Ukraine, he contributes to and uses free/open-source software in his workflow, often returning improvements upstream, and brings the uncommon combination of embedded systems depth and modern backend/frontend full-stack proficiency.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial Organization, Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial Organization at Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University
English, Ukrainian