Summary
Valerii Popov is a delivery-focused engineering manager with 10 years of experience building and scaling backend-heavy fintech platforms across Java, Spring Boot, and AWS. At ume he grew delivery from small teams into a 21-person organization, automating CI/CD and PR flows to save hundreds of developer hours monthly while reducing onboarding time by 42%. He combines hands-on technical chops—designing multi-tenant, secure microservices and implementing OAuth2/SAML—with people leadership: hiring, mentoring, performance reviews and career coaching for engineers. Prior roles span performance tuning at high-throughput systems and QA leadership in game development, giving him a practical focus on reliability and release stability. Valerii also mentors aspiring Java developers and has a management master’s, which fuels his coaching-first approach to turning “stuck” engineers into confident, job-ready professionals.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering and Management, Master's degree Computer Engineering and Management at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics
Master's degree Management, Master's degree Management at Ukrainian Academy of Engineering and Pedagogy
Russian, Ukrainian, English, Portuguese