Illia Kamenka
Principal Back-end Engineer at Toptal
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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Top SchoolIllia Kamenka is a Principal Back-end Engineer with over 11 years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails and building scalable web architectures. Currently at Toptal, he combines deep expertise in microservices, performance profiling, and testing with hands-on deployment skills using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenAI integrations. Known for an obsession with software quality and a strong sense of responsibility, he reliably tackles complex systems with minimal supervision and communicates effectively across product and engineering teams. His background leading development teams in Belarus and long tenure in back-end roles give him a rare blend of technical depth and delivery-focused leadership. Based in Krakow, he stays voraciously curious about emerging web technologies and applies that learning directly to client-impacting solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technician-Programmer, Technician-Programmer at College of Electronics in Minsk, BelarusBachelor's degree Software Engineer, Bachelor's degree Software Engineer at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Russian, Russian, English, Polish
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Github Skills (112)
eager-loading10
mvc10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
haml10
sidekiq10
markup-language10
html10
markup10
rails10
liquid10
reactive9
api9
jruby9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Galathius/redis-objects
Dec 2015 - Jun 2021
Map Redis types directly to Ruby objects
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
redismapruby
Galathius/alfred-sleep-workflow
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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