Summary
Yurii Kuzmenko is a DevOps engineer with 10+ years of experience in payments and IT, currently building infrastructure and automation at Hexad GmbH from Bavaria, Germany. He combines deep hands-on knowledge of payment processing (ISO 8583/20022, EMV, tokenization), Java-based web services and PL/SQL with modern tooling like Docker, Jenkins, ELK, Splunk and AWS to keep enterprise systems resilient and observable. His career spans implementation, 24/7 production support and migration projects for banks and payment providers, where he has repeatedly led certifications, high-availability tokenization and middleware integrations. Comfortable across Unix and Windows servers, networking, PKI/HSM and scripting, he pairs operational discipline (ITIL) with software craftsmanship from an MSc in Software Engineering. A proven problem-solver, he has built monitoring, testing and integration tools that bridged QA, support and business teams—showing a talent for turning operational challenges into reusable engineering solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computing (Software engineering), MSc, Computing (Software engineering) at The Open University
Specialist, Engineering (Electric Spacecraft Propulsion Systems), Specialist, Engineering (Electric Spacecraft Propulsion Systems) at Dnipropetrovsk National University
Specialist, Economics (Finance and credit), Specialist, Economics (Finance and credit) at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
English, French, German, Ukrainian, Russian