Summary
Natalya Shevskaya is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in CI/CD, release engineering, and automation, currently driving build and packaging reliability at Synopsys. She combines deep Python expertise (including packaging and data tooling) with hands-on DevOps skills in Jenkins, GitLab CI, Podman, and Debian/pip packaging to optimize scalable pipelines and reproducible releases. A former university lecturer and XAI researcher, she brings strong mentorship, public speaking, and academic rigour to engineering problems, having taught algorithms, Python, and supervised AI in medicine projects. Natalya has a track record of improving delivery efficiency through parallel builds, artifact caching, and automated dashboards, and she also builds cross-platform installers and containerized CI workflows. Fluent in English and native in Russian, she is relocating to Varna, Bulgaria, and combines production-grade tooling with a researcher’s attention to reproducibility and explainability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"