Petro Somka
Lead Software Engineer at Self-employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPetro Somka is a Lead Software Engineer based in Seattle with nearly a decade of professional experience and a 10+ year technical foundation in algorithms, data storage design, and distributed systems. He has built and optimized backend systems at scale for Microsoft and Amazon and contributed to widely used open-source authentication libraries (ADAL/MSAL) enhancing multi-cloud and Java/.NET compatibility. Petro combines strong CS fundamentals with hands-on expertise in Java, C#, Python, AWS microservices, Hadoop/MapReduce and both relational and NoSQL databases, and applies TDD, multi-threading and functional ideas to robust production services. Recently he architected an AI-driven trading bot leveraging ML (PyTorch, scikit-learn), Kubernetes and broker APIs, demonstrating an unusual blend of research-quality modeling and production trading systems. Known for clear communication and pragmatic design, he often surfaces subtle cross-cloud identity and caching issues before they reach production.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master`s degree Applied Mathematics, Master`s degree Applied Mathematics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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Github Skills (15)
net10
asp-net10
javas10
authentication10
user-authentication10
dotnet10
refactoring10
csharp10
msal10
api-design10
java10
dotnet-core10
apidoc9
object-oriented-programming9
api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-java
Jan 2019 - Jun 2021
Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for Java http://aka.ms/aadv2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 45 reviews, 100 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Petro appears to be involved in initializing and setting up the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for Java, matching functionality with the existing ADAL4J library. Their contributions primarily involve porting and refactoring code, as evidenced by the numerous code changes in the `AuthenticationContextDeprecated.java` file, as well as modifications related to building the application's API. They also refactored the API to use builders for creating client applications.
azure-active-directorysingle-page-applicationauthenticationmicrosoft-authentication-librarymicrosoft-authentication
AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-dotnet
Sep 2016 - Nov 2018
ADAL authentication libraries for .net
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 44 commits, 113 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Petro primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the .NET authentication libraries. The commits show modifications to the core authentication flows, including the addition of support for sovereign clouds. The changes involve updating authority endpoints, token handling, and cache management to accommodate different cloud environments. These modifications suggest a focus on enhancing the library's compatibility and functionality across diverse deployments and identity providers.
dotnetauthenticationadalazure-ad-b2cmsal
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