Viktor Savonin
Java Mentor at JavaGuru
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolViktor Savonin is a seasoned Software Architect and Java mentor with two decades of experience delivering scalable, high-performance systems across insurance, payments, credit, and social networking domains. He combines hands-on expertise in enterprise Java, cloud migration, and high-load distributed architectures with a strong record of driving measurable business outcomes—such as platforms that increased loan repayments and enabled early mobile wallet adoption in the Baltics. Viktor has led cross-functional teams, mentored engineers from beginner to advanced levels, and advised stakeholders to translate complex domain requirements into maintainable, secure solutions. His background includes building large-scale services at a major social network and pioneering payment tokenization at MeaWallet, giving him rare insight into both ultra-high throughput systems and stringent fintech security. Based in Riga, he pairs practical product-minded engineering with academic depth (including postgraduate study in data mining), making him adept at turning data-informed ideas into production-ready systems. Colleagues rely on him not just for architecture, but for pragmatic mentoring that accelerates team delivery and technical maturity.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Transport and Telecommunication Institute
English, Russian, Latvian
Github Skills (5)
project-management1
java1
sql-database1
database1
spring-boot1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
javagurulv/sql-practice
May 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:409 pushes, 1 comment, 6 issues in 2 months
javagurulv/java2-real-practice-with-mentor
Mar 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:733 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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