Roman Melnyk
Platform Engineer Kafka Subject Matter Expert
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Melnyk is a Platform Engineer and Kafka subject-matter expert with 12 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native back-end systems across Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and Docker. He has led end-to-end delivery of high-throughput streaming platforms—designing, deploying and observing Kafka solutions at scale using Argo CD, GitHub Actions, GCP, ELK/Grafana and Prometheus. A certified Scrum Master and team leader, Roman has accelerated Kafka adoption through hands-on training and platform integrations in enterprises like the European Patent Office and dacadoo. His background in Scala backend development and contributions to projects such as Bootzooka show a pragmatic focus on authentication, API design and secure core logic. Based in Greater Poland, he blends deep networking and systems foundations (CCNA, MEng in Electrical Technology) with modern cloud streaming expertise to solve cross-organizational data flow challenges.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA, CCNA Exploration, Network Fundamentals; Routing Protocols and Concepts; LAN Switching and Wireless;, CCNA, CCNA Exploration, Network Fundamentals; Routing Protocols and Concepts; LAN Switching and Wireless; at Cisco Networking AcademyNanodegree Foundation, Deep Learning, Nanodegree Foundation, Deep Learning at UdacityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Technology, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Technology at Vinnytsia National Technical University
English, Ukrainian, German, Polish, Romanian
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Github Skills (14)
backend10
back-end-development10
scala10
apidoc9
user-authentication9
api9
authentication9
swagger8
winforms6
proxy6
visual-studio6
regex6
linq6
angular4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
softwaremill/bootzooka
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Simple project to quickly start developing a Scala-based microservice or web application, without the need to write login, user registration etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Roman primarily focused on modifying the back-end aspects of the Bootzooka project. Their contributions include adding and subsequently removing Swagger support, indicating experimentation with API documentation. Additionally, the user made changes to user authentication and password reset functionalities. These actions suggest their work was centered around core application logic and security.
developingskeletonregistrationweb-applicationplay-framework
aywengo/react-app-blog-resume
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:53 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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