Summary
Oleksiy Protas is a versatile software engineer and cofounder with 16 years of experience blending low-level C/C++ systems work and scientific applications with startup finance and operations. Based in Ukraine, he currently splits his time between leading embedded C development, system administration and biotech consulting at Ecognize.me and developing Python/Django and React.JS solutions for the Space Research Institute. A veteran of UNIX/Linux environments and kernel-level tinkering, he brings deep platform skills from roles at GlobalLogic and early freelance projects spanning OpenGL, Qt and Lua. His formal background in biology and physics gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that informs biological consulting and rigorous engineering tradeoffs. Comfortable both in the codebase and the boardroom, he also handles CFO responsibilities, legal support and accounting for his startup. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pairs scientific curiosity with production-hardened systems experience.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Sevastopol State Technical University
Ukrainian, English, Russian, French, Portuguese, Polish, German, Serbian, Spanish