Summary
Oleksiy R is a principal-level engineer and associate professor based in Kyiv with 30+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering complex, high-load systems across industrial automation, logistics, banking and enterprise platforms. He blends deep Computer Science foundations and functional programming (Scala, Haskell, Rust) to create robust domain models and architectures that stay maintainable under real-world complexity, while remaining happiest working close to the code. His background spans end-to-end systems engineering—from real-time streaming and recommendation engines to legacy telephony platforms built long before cloud—and includes leadership roles (CIO/CTO) and extensive teaching since 2010. He has repeatedly turned ambiguous domains into clear, testable designs and pragmatic production systems, and is known for precision, strong abstractions, and a talent for simplifying hard problems. An educator and practitioner, he still codes without burnout and brings a rare mix of academic rigor and decades of production experience.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science at International Research and Education Center for Information Technologies and Systems, NAS of Ukraine and MES of Ukraine
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Russian, Ukrainian