Yuri Tkachenko
Head Of DeFi Engineering at Lido Finance
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolYuri Tkachenko is a Head of DeFi Engineering based in Porto with 13 years of software experience and over a decade as a full‑stack developer, now leading Lido V3 development and DeFi engineering efforts. He combines deep e‑commerce and web architecture roots with recent protocol-level smart contract expertise, having improved CI/CD, testing suites (Hardhat, Foundry) and security tooling (Solhint, Slither) for production blockchain systems. Previously he modernized Songsterr’s platform—migrating legacy APIs, building microservices for audio rendering, and architecting anti‑fraud and subscription systems that materially boosted revenue and reduced fraud. An active open‑source contributor, he has refined PHP micro‑framework internals, tests and docs to improve developer experience. Yuri blends hands‑on development, team leadership and operational rigor to deliver reliable, auditable systems across web and blockchain domains.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Software Product Management, Information Technology Project Management, Software Product Management, Information Technology Project Management at CourseraFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampSoftware Engineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Software Engineer, Computer Science, Engineer at South Russian State Technical University (Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (21)
gif10
phpunit10
micro-framework10
php10
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restful-api9
testing9
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model-view-controller9
nodejs9
html9
restful8
oracle6
flash6
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
flightphp/core
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
An extensible micro-framework for PHP
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 23 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Yuri focused on improving the framework's internal structure and developer experience. Their contributions included correcting PHPDoc annotations for better IDE integration, adding and updating tests (specifically PHPUnit) to ensure code quality, and enhancing the documentation with relevant references and method organization. They also made minor refinements to the code, such as renaming and reordering sections for clarity.
micro-frameworkphprestfulrestful-apiflightphp
songsterr/postcss-sayonara
May 2020 - Mar 2022
PostCSS plugin to limit used declarations to a given set
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 10 months
postcsscsspostcss-plugin
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