Summary
Yuri Bonya is a seasoned software engineer with over 14 years in development and 11 years focused on scalable backend systems, currently working as a Scala developer and serving as a Border Guard in Ukraine. He transitioned from a long .NET background into Scala, applying its conciseness to build complex, distributed FinTech and cloud-native systems using Akka, gRPC, Kafka/RabbitMQ ecosystems, and Kubernetes. His experience spans high-throughput payment integrations, healthcare platforms, and B2B live services, balancing pragmatic engineering with robust distributed design. Comfortable across the stack—from databases like PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB to orchestration with Helm and ArgoCD—he brings production-hardened instincts and a knack for migrating legacy systems to modern cloud architectures. An early adopter of functional Scala practices (Cats, Monix, Tapir) he often blends pragmatic engineering with functional patterns to improve reliability and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Ukrainian