Yurii Bliuchak
Engineering Team Lead at Apify
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolYurii Bliuchak is an engineering team lead with 12 years of experience building and scaling mission-critical backend systems across e-commerce and classifieds platforms, now based in Prague. He has repeatedly improved performance and reliability—architecting a feed processing solution that scaled capacity 100x and cut processing time by 75%, and driving services to 99.99% uptime while reducing on-call load through Kubernetes adoption. Yurii combines hands‑on expertise in Go, Python, TypeScript and cloud-native tooling with a strong delivery focus, routinely establishing CI/CD, on-call rotations, and cross-team collaboration metrics to raise sprint completion rates above 75%. He’s experienced leading distributed teams through mergers and reorganization, mentoring engineers to promotion and turning proof‑of‑concept ideas into production systems. Pragmatic and results-oriented, he favors measurable impact—click‑through rate and availability gains are hallmarks of his leadership style.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Systems Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Systems Engineering at Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas
English, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech
Github Skills (68)
fault-tolerance10
job-scheduling10
fault10
cron10
gcp9
storage9
fault-tolerant9
cakephp8
google-cloud8
testing8
google-cloud-storage8
odpi-c8
distributed-systems8
cookbook8
scheduling7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bliuchak/heroes
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Building http server with CRUD functionality using http package from stdlib
Contributions:32 PRs, 23 pushes, 23 branches in 6 months
crudcrud-functionalityhttp-serverstdlib
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