Oleksandr Kruk
Senior Engineering Manager at Funding Circle UK
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOleksandr Kruk is a Senior Engineering Manager based in the UK with over a decade of hands-on experience building mobile and backend systems, currently leading engineering at Funding Circle. He progressed from mobile lead and senior engineer roles into management, combining iOS expertise (Swift/Obj-C) and Ruby backend skills (Grape, RabbitMQ, Docker) with a strong emphasis on team ownership, technical guidance, and inclusive decision-making. Oleksandr has a track record of stabilising and improving products—shipping retailer investor mobile experiences, push notification services, and CI/testing improvements on earlier projects. He contributes to open-source tooling for video metadata retrieval, adding robustness and error handling for real-world API and network failures. With an MEng in Computer Software Engineering from University of Porto, he blends research-minded problem solving (honoured work on occasionally-connected Android frameworks) with pragmatic delivery at scale.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering at University of Porto
Portuguese, Ukrainian, Russian, English
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Github Skills (14)
apim10
vimeo-api10
error-handling10
api10
youtube-api10
ruby10
rspec9
webscraping8
hasone6
php6
cakephp6
android6
mysql6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thibaudgg/video_info
Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
Get video info from Dailymotion, Vimeo, Wistia, and YouTube URLs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Oleksandr primarily focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the video information retrieval library. They added support for Vimeo channels, fixed bugs related to view count extraction from YouTube, and addressed issues where videos were unavailable due to various reasons. Moreover, they refactored code to reduce duplication, and added error handling for network connectivity and API key issues.
urlswistiayoutubevideo-infodailymotion
FundingCircle/APNS
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
An Apple Push Notification Service gem
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
pushnotification-servicenotificationspush-notificationnotification
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