Oleg Sklyar
SWE Manager at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolOleg Sklyar is a seasoned software engineering manager with 16 years of international experience leading high-performing, cross-cultural teams and shipping production systems at companies from EMBL-EBI to Google. He blends hands-on technical leadership in Java, Python, Go and Docker with a strong background in data science and numerical methods (PhD-level), enabling him to bridge research, engineering and product needs. Known for transforming disjoint groups into coherent agile teams, he champions clean code, simplicity and rapid prototyping, often using pair programming and automation to multiply team productivity. His career includes major rewrites and architectural resets that reduced complexity and resolved long-standing issues, plus production-facing work in trading technology and healthcare systems. Based in Zurich, he brings an experimental, evidence-driven approach to process transformation and technical mentoring. An unusual strength is his track record of moving from low-level algorithmic research to pragmatic, well-tested engineering across languages and domains.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Science, Numerical Methods in Physical Chemistry, Summa cum laude, PhD in Science, Numerical Methods in Physical Chemistry, Summa cum laude at University of Oldenburg (Germany)Masters, Physics, A, Masters, Physics, A at University of Kharkiv (Ukraine)
English, German, French, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (127)
go-git10
golang10
ids10
gradle10
friendly-url10
sequential10
git-client10
non-blocking9
mongoose9
getopt9
database9
high-performance9
python9
loops9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
teris-io/kite
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 releases, 68 commits, 9 PRs in 5 months
rpcpubsub-rpcpublic-apisservice-basedjava
teris-io/connect-oriento
Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
session-storeexpressjssequelizenode-jsexpress
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