Victor Babenko
Principal Engineer at Iterable
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Babenko is a Principal Engineer with 18 years of software experience, currently shaping data platform architecture and strategy at Iterable from San Francisco. He brings deep full-stack expertise spanning mobile (Android/iOS), backend services in Scala and Ruby, Javascript front-ends, and low-level debugging and performance optimization. Victor has shipped high-volume ingestion and identity-resolution systems, mobile SDKs, and native macOS applications (including notable contributions to the Syncthing macOS client), demonstrating fluency from APIs to storage. He consistently improves operational tooling and distribution — from DMG signing scripts to DB tuning — and is comfortable across Kubernetes, CockroachDB, Pulsar, and Elasticsearch ecosystems. An active open-source contributor, he has a history of finding and fixing subtle bugs (including a Rails 4 issue) and accelerating legacy code paths for significant speedups. His unusual combination of legal education and hands-on systems experience gives him a pragmatic, risk-aware approach to architecting reliable platforms.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Law, Specialist Law at Moscow Open Social AcademySpecialist IT Management, Specialist IT Management at State University of Management (SUM)Master Law, Master Law at State University — Higher School of Economics
English, Russian
Github Skills (15)
apple110
objective-c10
swift10
macos10
apple210
front-end-development10
appleii10
apidoc9
api9
file-copy9
data-sync9
rsync9
automation8
automations8
automation-testing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
syncthing/syncthing-macos
Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily contributed to the macOS application for Syncthing, demonstrating a focus on both the application's backend and frontend aspects. Their work included integrating features using Objective-C and Swift, incorporating API interactions, and enhancing the user interface. They refactored the status monitoring system and added functionality like 'Pause All Devices' and 'Resume All Devices', improving the application's overall functionality. Additionally, they improved the DMG generation and signing script, ensuring proper application distribution and deployment.
file-sharingpeer-to-peerbackupobjective-csynchronization
virusman/Presentr
Feb 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 6 years 1 month
cocoapodsswift-wrapperswiftiosviewcontroller
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