Summary
Oleksandr Volynets is a Senior Member of Technical Staff based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems, currently working on Access and Identity Management for Commerce Cloud at Salesforce. He combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, having previously led engineering teams, run on-call and incident processes, and driven migrations from legacy stacks to Kubernetes and microservices at Zalando and finleap. A former physicist with a MSc in Nuclear Physics, he brings rigorous problem-solving and a data-driven mindset from research into production engineering. Known for pragmatic ownership—"fix it or do not fix it"—he focuses on reliability, cost-efficiency, and developer productivity while coaching teams on agile practices and inner-sourcing.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Nuclear Physics, 4.9 - 4-point Scale: 2 (worst) to 5 (best), Master of Science (MSc), Nuclear Physics, 4.9 - 4-point Scale: 2 (worst) to 5 (best) at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
English, German, Russian, Ukrainian