Yuriy Lazaryev is a senior software engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of hands-on experience building reliable, maintainable and scalable systems across fintech, e-commerce and blockchain domains. He is an experienced Haskell and functional-programming practitioner who has driven critical parts of the Cardano ecosystem—contributing to the widely used cardano-wallet project and now working on the Plutus compiler and infrastructure. Yuriy combines deep backend engineering and architecture skills with practical product experience from startups to large platforms like Zalando and Groupon, often improving testability and delivery pipelines through property-based testing and automation. Known for pragmatic refactors and thoughtful code hygiene (for example targeted refactors in cardano-wallet), he brings an engineer’s discipline to distributed systems and developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Junior Specialist Production and Servicing of Computers, Junior Specialist Production and Servicing of Computers at Zaporizhzhya Radiotechnical College
Bachelor Computer Systems and Networks, Bachelor Computer Systems and Networks at Open International University of Human Development “Ukraine”
HTTP server & command-line for managing UTxOs and HD wallets in Cardano.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:413 reviews, 206 commits, 167 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Yuriy's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the codebase of the Cardano wallet project. They implemented changes to improve code formatting by replacing 'let' with 'where' to reduce indentation. Other notable contributions include moving asset extraction logic to the relevant module, and adding a property test for listing wallet assets and implementing light mode functionality, as well as fixing existing property tests.
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