Ilya Zinkovich
Staff Software Engineer at Bolt
Berlin, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIlya Zinkovich is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of experience building scalable, reliable backend systems for high-throughput logistics and legal-domain products. He has driven deterministic matching and dynamic batching solutions for last-mile delivery at Careem and now contributes at Bolt, specializing in distributed systems, AWS-driven infrastructure, and performance optimization. Ilya combines deep Java/Spring expertise with hands-on Terraform, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, and cost-saving initiatives like spot-instance adoption, reflecting both architectural vision and operational discipline. He’s comfortable leading small teams, owning on-call rotations and incident postmortems, and has a track record of improving throughput and reducing latency in mission-critical services. A practical engineer with a background in applied mathematics and computer science, he often bridges the gap between algorithmic assignment logic and production-grade reliability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Computer Science Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree Computer Science Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Belarusian State University
Русский, English, German
Stackoverflow
4,262reputation
333kreached
71answers
36questions
reactive-programming
top-5%
java
top-5%
spring-webflux
top-1%
spring
top-5%
Github Skills (24)
spring-webflux10
java9
spring9
domain-modeling9
reactive-programming9
mono8
reactive-extensions8
flux8
asynchronous8
jvm8
non-blocking7
reactive7
reactive-streams7
reactor-netty6
maven6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
IlyaZinkovich/domain-modelling-made-functional-in-scala
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Examples from "Domain Modelling Made Functional" book implemented in Scala
Contributions:47 commits, 3 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 month
domain-modelingscala
IlyaZinkovich/ilyazinkovich.github.io
Jun 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:235 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.