Summary
Valentyn Ponomarenko is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building and leading teams to deliver high‑availability, low‑latency distributed systems across finance, insurance, mortgage, and healthcare. He combines hands‑on expertise in Go, .NET, Java and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) with systems architecture experience—designing PKI and touchless certificate rotation at Oracle and event‑driven microservices and big data pipelines at CoreLogic and Nordstrom. Comfortable choosing the right storage and deployment model rather than being a DBA, he emphasizes cost‑of‑ownership and operational resilience from day one. As an engineering manager and delivery lead he’s coordinated teams of 2–15 engineers, driving agile culture and ownership while migrating legacy platforms to cloud‑native architectures. Based in Bellevue and a US green card holder, he balances technical depth with practical delivery—often preferring Go for performance-critical components and tinkering with GCP on personal projects.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science and Technology General, Associate's degree Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science and Technology General at National Aviation University
Master of Science - MS Economics and Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Economics and Mathematics at Donetsk National University
Certificate Accounting and Finance, Certificate Accounting and Finance at Donetsk State University of Management
English, Russian, Ukrainian