Ilya Kovalenko
Lead Software Engineer (Ruby) at Itransition Group
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Kovalenko is a Lead Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in Ruby and Ruby on Rails, building high-throughput APIs and resilient backend systems for production at scale. Based in Warsaw, he has led small teams while improving CI/CD, enforcing best practices, and migrating Kubernetes deployments (including Helm2→Helm3 and EKS adoption) to boost reliability and resource efficiency. He has hands-on experience troubleshooting critical production issues for services handling tens of thousands of requests per minute and has driven authentication, API, and monetization features across legacy and greenfield projects. A pragmatic mentor and code-reviewer, Ilya combines deep backend expertise with a quick appetite for new technologies and a track record of optimizing code and developer workflows. Notably, his open-source contributions include iterative refinements to Ruby-based course repos, demonstrating attention to code quality and maintainability even in educational projects.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineer, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineer at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, Russian, Russian, Polish
Github Skills (6)
calculator10
ruby10
cal10
calc10
algorithms9
software-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rubyroidlabs/bsuir-courses
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
This is common repository for all student to submit all their homeworks
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily focused on implementing and refining a calculator program within the repository. Their work included the initial implementation, subsequent styling fixes, and code optimization. The user demonstrated proficiency in Ruby, developing the program's core logic and improving its overall structure and readability through multiple revisions.
pythonhomeworkssubmit
ilyacoding/iManual
Aug 2017 - Dec 2024
iManual to make it easy to deal with manuals.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
manualsdeal
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