Summary
Orest Ivasiv is a senior backend engineer based in Berlin with over 14 years of hands-on experience and 18+ years building distributed systems. He currently leads Lounge Campaign Planning at Zalando after driving experimentation platforms, recommendation systems, and event-driven invoice processing across multiple Zalando teams. Comfortable as both architect and tech lead, he has designed high-availability microservices, feature stores, and large-scale integration solutions in domains from retail to healthcare. His background spans Java and Spring ecosystems, Scala/Akka, Docker, and data-oriented platforms, with early research experience in neural networks and AI. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who turns complex business requirements into reliable, production-ready systems while mentoring teams. His GitHub persona hints at a lighthearted curiosity beyond code, suggesting a creative, human-centered approach to engineering.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer and Information Sciences, General, M.Sc., Computer and Information Sciences, General at Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas
English, Ukrainian, German