Olena Babenko
Staff Software Engineer at Aiven
Espoo, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolOlena Babenko is a Staff Software Engineer based in Espoo, Finland, with a decade of experience building backend systems and data pipelines for production-scale services. She has progressed from iOS development at Yandex and several startups to senior backend roles at Zalando and Aiven, focusing on Kafka, Flink, Spark, and cloud-native microservices. Olena combines hands-on implementation with infrastructure work—maintaining MirrorMaker, Kafka Connect, and stream processing components—while applying functional Scala patterns for resilient services. Known as optimistic and sociable, she brings clear communication and mentorship to cross-functional teams alongside strong delivery focus. Her background uniquely spans both client-side app development and large distributed data systems, giving her a practical edge when bridging product needs and platform reliability.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of science, Master of science at National Technical University (Donetsk,Ukraine)
Russian, Ukrainian, English, German
Github Skills (49)
aiven10
kafka-connect10
kafka-connector10
kafka10
karapace10
sink10
apache-kafka10
apache9
confluent9
google-cloud-platform9
gcp9
http9
aws9
cli9
connectors9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HelenMel/Udacity_student
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
HelenMel/WebsiteStatusesAggregators
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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