Summary
Oleg Botvenko is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with over 15 years of experience scaling web applications, infrastructure, and teams from MVP to production. He has held CTO and senior engineering roles across startups and established companies, currently contributing as a Software Engineer at Automattic while previously architecting service-oriented transitions and devops practices. Oleg excels at turning messy legacy systems into maintainable, fault-tolerant platforms through pragmatic architecture, CI/CD, and performance-driven monitoring. He pairs hands-on development—large-scale data stores, NLP pipelines, and high-load receivers—with people-focused leadership: roadmaps, clear evaluation processes, and a culture of trust and responsibility. Notably, he designed large data systems (hundreds of millions to a billion rows) and built news-parsing and NLP pipelines that powered real-time media analysis. Based in Heatherton, NL, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and a track record of shipping resilient, business-aligned technical strategies.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Sciense, Associate's degree, Computer Sciense at Sevastopol State Technical University
English, Russian, Ukrainian