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 (34)
aiven10
kafka-connect10
google-cloud-platform10
http10
kafka10
karapace10
apache-kafka10
gcp9
aws9
google-cloud-storage9
cli9
dbaas9
documentation8
sphinx8
command-line8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Aiven-Open/aiven-skills-bundle
Mar 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 1 PR in 3 months
HelenMel/Udacity_student
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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