Krystan Gontscharow
Senior Software Engineer at Elry
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKrystan Gontscharow is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with two decades of commercial experience and a decade focused on hands-on engineering and DevOps leadership. He has repeatedly delivered cloud-native, production-grade systems—moving companies from Rackspace to AWS, building serverless analytics pipelines, and maintaining 99% uptime as a Head of DevOps. Comfortable across the full stack, Krystan blends Python/Django backend craft with React/Angular frontends, containerisation and CI/CD automation (GitLab, CircleCI) to accelerate product velocity. He excels at pragmatic rewrites and platform uplifts—prototyping solutions rapidly (48-hour proofs) and turning them into maintainable architectures and automated pipelines. A habitual problem-solver, he pairs deep operational discipline (Datadog, ELK, extensive AWS) with an eye for delightful UI work, previously shipping retail search and analytics products. Notably, he’s as happy architecting Spring Boot microservices for enterprise scale as he is dockerising entire stacks to streamline developer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Science (Information Technology), Bachelor's degree Science (Information Technology) at University of Southern QueenslandBusiness Administration, Business Administration at Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE
English
Github Skills (13)
data-access9
ddd8
spring-data8
java8
spring8
spring-boot7
merge6
commons6
datastore5
scaffold4
compatibility4
docker3
composable2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OnePunchVAM/vam-story-builder
May 2020 - Jun 2020
An application designed to scaffold VAM scenes for merge-load compatibility and injecting new functionality.
Contributions:27 commits in 10 days
scaffoldmergescenesvamcompatibility
gontro/dcompose
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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