Summary
Viacheslav Hahara is a Senior Software Engineer based in Kyiv with over 15 years of professional experience building and operating enterprise-grade backend systems, and more than a decade focused on large-scale Java and cloud-native architectures. He has led teams, mentored newcomers, and designed microservices from scratch while driving migrations of monolith/on-prem systems to Kubernetes-based cloud deployments (AWS, EKS, AKS) for products like Talend Cloud. Deeply experienced in the full lifecycle—development, production deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting—he combines strong Java/Spring expertise with data stores and streaming tech such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka and ELK. His background spans telecom, media asset management and social analytics, showing a consistent track record of performance tuning and cross-team API design. Recently he has expanded into applied ML and data skills via Kaggle coursework in Feature Engineering and Machine Learning, hinting at a growing interest in data-driven features and observability. Colleagues rely on him not only for solid engineering but also for pragmatic migrations and onboarding at scale.
11 years of coding experience