Yehor Popovych
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolYehor Popovych is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lisbon with 13+ years of experience spanning hands-on development, team leadership, and founder/CTO roles in startups and product companies. He has delivered across mobile, desktop, backend and decentralized-app stacks, and currently works on Build & Test Visibility at Datadog after leading a protocol-focused dApp startup, TESSERACT. A strong Swift contributor, Yehor has improved libraries like SQLite.swift and SwiftLinkPreview with practical fixes for thread safety, caching and encoding handling—demonstrating attention to robustness in open-source projects. His background in applied mathematics and startup accelerator training complements a pragmatic approach to complex technical challenges, from low-level code refactors to product strategy. Colleagues know him for taking on “bleeding-edge” and unusually complex tasks while still interfacing confidently with customers, partners and investors.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at dLab (SOSV) accelerator in NYCMaster's degree Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Applied Mathematics at Taurida 'V. I. Vernadskiy' National University, Simferopol
Ukrainian, Russian, English
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Github Skills (17)
caching10
sqlite10
enumeration10
swift10
concurrency10
ios9
databases9
sql-database9
database9
regular-expression8
unit-testing8
swift-package-manager7
open-url7
documentation7
typescript6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
stephencelis/SQLite.swift
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
A type-safe, Swift-language layer over SQLite3.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 17 commits, 14 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Yehor primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Swift code base for the SQLite.swift library. They implemented changes to improve code clarity and maintainability by introducing enum constants for strings used in core functions. They also fixed an enum naming issue, updated documentation, and addressed build issues. The user demonstrated expertise in working with the Swift programming language within the context of SQLite database interactions.
sqlite3swift-languagetype-safesqliteswift
LeonardoCardoso/SwiftLinkPreview
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
It makes a preview from an URL, grabbing all the information such as title, relevant texts and images.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Yehor primarily focused on enhancing the SwiftLinkPreview library by incorporating features such as cancel support, memory leak testing, and caching improvements. They refactored the code to improve thread safety within the caching mechanism and added encoding auto-detection to increase the library's versatility. Additionally, the user fixed an example within the project, demonstrating a hands-on approach to maintaining the project.
cocoapodsregular-expressionsswift-package-managertvosswift
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