Yurii Palaida
ML Engineer at Acorn Insurance and Financial Services Limited
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYurii Palaida is an ML engineer and full-stack developer with nine years of experience building backend services, supporting legacy systems, and accelerating delivery for clients including a leader in EV charging. Comfortable across Go, Python, PostgreSQL and .NET/C#, he’s been migrating backend thinking toward Go while applying DDD, clean architecture and modular monolith patterns. He contributed to the open-source Mathesar project via Google Summer of Code, adding robust casting logic and tests that improved Postgres-native spreadsheet-like data handling and UX edge cases like scroll-state preservation. Beyond hands-on engineering he coaches and mentors peers, writes educational articles, and pushes CI/test automation to reduce release time and streamline troubleshooting. Based in London, he blends pragmatic system design with a curiosity-driven approach to experimenting with new languages and architectures.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
.NET, .NET at Binary Studio Academy
English, Ukrainian, Russian
Github Skills (8)
postgresql10
test-automation10
python9
database-administration8
databases8
database8
admin8
sql8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mathesar-foundation/mathesar
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
An intuitive spreadsheet-like interface that lets users of all technical skill levels view, edit, query, and collaborate on Postgres data directly—100% open source and self hosted, with native Postgres access control.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 113 commits, 21 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Yurii primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Mathesar project by adding essential casting functions and expanding the type system. They introduced tests to ensure the correct handling and behavior of these functions, specifically focusing on to-numeric casting. Furthermore, the user was involved in implementing and testing the correct behavior around scroll state preservation. These changes were critical to improving the robustness and functionality of the Mathesar data interface.
pythondjangouser-experienceweb-applicationintuitive
BinaryStudioAcademy/bsa-winter21-22-recodo
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Recodo is an application for recording videos of a screen and webcam | A project of students of the .NET track at Binary Studio Winter Academy 2021-2022
Contributions:123 reviews, 39 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 months
dotnetwebcamvideoswintercsharp
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