Vlad Kobzar
Software Engineer III at SoftProjector
Stanwood, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Kobzar is a pragmatic Software Engineer III with 10 years of experience building reliable, test-driven systems for automotive, IIoT, and enterprise applications. At CARIAD he leads a development team and has architected tooling and platform components—virtual vehicle creators, a Notification Service, a Partner SDK, and advanced vehicle signal simulators—that enable realistic end-to-end testing and customer extensibility. Comfortable both leading and executing, he pairs embedded and cloud skills from prior IIoT and firmware roles with strong automation and QA expertise honed across testing leadership positions. A self-taught problem solver and volunteer open-source maintainer, he also develops cross-platform user-facing applications and supports users directly, revealing a customer-first engineering mindset. Located in Stanwood, WA, he combines systems-level thinking with hands-on coding to turn complex integration challenges into practical, deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Art and Science, Associates, 3.86, Associates of Art and Science, Associates, 3.86 at Big Bend Community CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Construction Management, 3.71, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Construction Management, 3.71 at Central Washington University
English, Russian
Github Skills (13)
church10
sidecar9
serverless8
state-management8
event-driven8
dapr8
portable8
pubsub8
kubernetes7
microservices7
golang6
cloud-native5
distributed-systems5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SoftProjector/BibleSongProcessor
Jan 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
SoftProjector/softprojector
Jan 2017 - Feb 2021
Church media presentation software
Contributions:2 releases, 64 commits, 27 PRs in 4 years 1 month
churchpresentation
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