Ivan Chobotar
Head Of Engineering at SQUAD
Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Chobotar is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years in software development and 7+ years of hands-on web engineering, currently serving as Head of Engineering at SQUAD. He specializes in backend systems with 4+ years of Go, microservices design, and experience across MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra and ClickHouse for high-load production environments. Ivan blends technical ownership with people leadership—hiring, leveling, mentoring and maintaining team health while aligning product and engineering goals. His background includes building products from scratch, migrating Node.js backends to Go, and delivering blockchain and analytics platforms, showing strong architecture and CI/CD experience. A pragmatic security-minded engineer, he has attended OWASP training and routinely applies database and performance optimizations in mission-critical systems. Based in Ukraine, he’s known for fixing legacy code, clarifying career ladders through grading docs, and improving cross-team communication in distributed settings.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Department of Computer sciences, Bachelor of Science, Department of Computer sciences at National Aviation University
Github Skills (23)
golangci-lint10
golang10
linter10
runner10
go9
salt9
cat8
mongoose7
backend5
protocol-buffers4
nodejs4
protobuf4
mongodb4
grpc3
facebook2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ivch/dynasty
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Backend for the local residences app
Contributions:186 commits, 76 PRs, 159 pushes in 3 years 4 months
expressbackendnodejsmongoosemongodb
ivch/plastic
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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