Irina Garanina is a senior software engineering leader with 11 years of experience designing and delivering scalable Java-based platforms across finance and high-traffic consumer services. She has led teams of 6–16 engineers, was the first female team lead at hh.ru, and consistently combines hands-on architecture with team-building and mentorship. Irina built a fintech platform that cut development costs by up to 50% and launched a product that attracted 500 clients in its first year. Her SRE and performance work includes JVM tuning that halved resource consumption for critical microservices and SQL/database optimizations under heavy load. A self-taught Elasticsearch and tracing (Jaeger) practitioner, she champions developer communities and internal knowledge-sharing to accelerate onboarding and cross-team growth. Now based in Germany and currently at HelloFresh, she brings a rare mix of delivery velocity, operational rigor, and people leadership.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematician, system programmer, Master's degree, Mathematician, system programmer at Moscow Aviation Institute
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Irina Garanina - Senior Software Engineering at HelloFresh