Summary
Tony Rutkevich is a product-oriented Staff Software Engineer based in Sydney with 14+ years in software engineering, blending 7+ years of Android expertise with backend and distributed systems work since 2018. He has a strong track record designing and delivering microservices and high-throughput Go backends on Kubernetes and AWS, having led cross-team projects at Lyft and SafetyCulture that drove measurable improvements in metrics and system throughput. Tony excels at system design and migrations under tight deadlines, coordinating stakeholders across Belarus, the US, Israel, Germany, and Australia, and he frequently turns operational needs into robust technical roadmaps. He also champions knowledge sharing—mentoring colleagues and speaking at conferences—and has a history of pragmatic technical decisions (e.g., early Kotlin adoption and traffic-saving WebSocket optimizations) that yield long-term reliability and cost savings.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at Belarusian State University
Graduate, Graduate at Minsk State Higher Radioengineering College
English, German, Russian