Kostiantyn Shchepanovskyi is an experienced engineering leader with 11 years building and scaling backend systems, now serving as Head of Engineering at ICONIC21 after progressing through technical lead and R&D roles. He combines deep Java and C++ roots from early career work with hands-on delivery in live gaming and enterprise systems at Playtech and SysIQ. An active open-source maintainer on protostuff and author of a protobuf JetBrains plugin, he focuses on practical tooling, code generation and test automation that improve developer productivity. Based in Ukraine, he balances strategic leadership with detailed technical contributions—often tackling documentation, testing and RPC codegen improvements that quietly raise project quality.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Vinnytsia National Technical University
Java serialization library, proto compiler, code generator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:15 releases, 208 commits, 89 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kostiantyn focused on fixing documentation errors in the Java serialization library and proto compiler. They primarily addressed doclint errors and improved the documentation. Additionally, the user added and moved tests for the ProtoUtil class into JUnit tests, demonstrating a focus on testing. Further contributions include adding support for RPC service code generation, indicating involvement in enhancing the code generation capabilities of the project.
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 3 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.
Request Free Trial
Kostiantyn Shchepanovskyi - Head Of Engineering Department at ICONIC21