Summary
Serhii Polokhalo is a senior software engineer based in Charlotte, NC, with over 20 years in software development and more than a decade focused on backend engineering. He brings deep Scala expertise layered on a strong Java foundation, having delivered distributed, data-driven systems using Kafka, Akka, Spark, Cassandra and traditional RDBMS across enterprise teams. His career spans roles from hands-on developer to technical lead and architect at companies like HERE Technologies, EPAM, and NetCracker, proving fluency in both legacy stacks (J2EE, Oracle ADF) and modern microservices ecosystems. Known for improving quality through test-driven practices and pragmatic architecture choices, he has driven measurable reductions in defect rates and supported international, cross-functional teams. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he combines systems thinking with practical delivery—often bridging R&D, presales demos, and production deployments in the same projects.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bahelor, IT, Bahelor, IT at Kryvyi Rih Technical University
English, Russian, Ukrainian