Summary
Valerii Kantor is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead based in Burnaby, BC with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and guiding cross-functional teams. He designs scalable backend architectures (Java, Spring, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ) and modern frontends (TypeScript, React) and has a proven track record of performance and cost optimizations that boosted coverage, reduced bugs, and cut expenses across multiple projects. At GlobalBet he led efforts that accelerated deployments, slashed database load and WebSocket issues, and drove a 5x customer growth through a React rewrite and video streaming work. Now at Mastercard, he continues to blend hands-on engineering with team leadership and architecture design, while actively exploring machine learning to expand his technical toolkit. An engineer who moves between deep technical fixes (caching, connection handling, streaming) and people-first leadership, he also maintains an active GitHub presence for sharing practical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Systems Programming, Master's degree Systems Programming at Donetsk National Technical University