Summary
Serhiy Boychenko is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portugal with nearly a decade of professional experience and a PhD background in computer science, blending research rigor with production engineering. He has built large-scale distributed systems and back-end microservices at CERN and ThousandEyes (Cisco), and designed integrations and portfolio optimization services in the fintech domain. Comfortable leading process improvements, he has driven CI/CD, configuration management and Java migrations while championing iterative Agile delivery. Notably, his doctoral work produced a workload-aware data placement approach that improved query performance on large distributed storage—an example of applying domain knowledge to practical system optimization. He thrives in interdisciplinary, flat teams and brings a track record of turning complex performance and observability challenges into reliable, maintainable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade de Coimbra