Summary
Yuri Ivatchkovitch is a senior software developer with 12+ years of experience designing high-performance C/C++ systems and modern data-driven services, currently building scalable backend tooling at Booking.com. He blends deep expertise in low-level optimization, template metaprogramming and critical-system design with practical work in Perl, MySQL, Hadoop, Hive and search/queue technologies like ElasticSearch and Disque. His career spans game and image-processing projects, virtual machines and bytecode compilers, telecom reconciliation and distributed payment systems—demonstrating a rare mix of systems, tooling and product-focused engineering. Former team lead experience and long-term ownership of complex, hard-to-describe responsibilities reflect his ability to navigate ambiguous, large-scope problems while mentoring teams. Although he’s been favoring high-level scripting and big-data stacks recently, he retains strong C/C++ instincts and a taste for balanced architectures that maximize flexibility without sacrificing speed. Based in Amsterdam, he’s driven by creative architecture ideas and a pragmatic appetite for shipping robust, performant software.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi
English, Portuguese