Volodymyr Poliakov
Co-founder & CTO Vertical-AI Reliability at Artelize
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolVolodymyr Poliakov is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12 years of software engineering experience, currently steering AI-driven automation and product development from the UK. He blends hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the well-known Payum PHP payments library and PayPal REST integrations—with strategic leadership across roles at Rakuten Advertising, Artelize, and his own Deep Thought Solutions. Comfortable shipping production systems, he focuses on replacing manual work with reliable software and automations that scale. His background in automated control systems and early career work training air traffic control equipment give him a systems-oriented mindset and a penchant for safety-critical thinking. As a manager and technical lead he balances people development with pragmatic engineering, moving teams from prototypes to maintainable products. He brings a practical mix of payments, integrations, and AI automation experience that often uncovers efficiencies others miss.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Automated Control Systems for Industrial Facilities and Business Processes, Master's degree, Automated Control Systems for Industrial Facilities and Business Processes at Ukrainian State Engineering Pedagogical Academy, Kharkiv
English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (4)
php10
paypal10
payment-processing10
rest-api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Payum/Payum
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
PHP Payment processing library. It offers everything you need to work with payments: Credit card & offsite purchasing, subscriptions, payouts etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits in 28 days
Contributions summary:Volodymyr primarily focused on modifying and extending the Payum payment processing library. Their commits reveal changes to configuration files, payment details models, and the introduction of new features related to PayPal integration, including REST API functionality. The user implemented changes to capture and status actions, indicating involvement in core payment processing logic. They also worked on integrating PayPal's REST API for processing payments.
phppaymentpaypalstripebe2bill
Skadabr/metalist
Oct 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:13 reviews, 246 PRs, 251 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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