Yuriy Yunikov
Senior Engineering Manager at Primer
Poland
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Top SchoolYuriy Yunikov is a senior engineering manager with 12 years of experience building payment processing and identity systems, currently leading core teams at Primer focused on payment processing engine and services. He blends hands-on technical leadership with product-minded architecture work—introducing API-first design, automated testing, and reliability-focused practices that improved on-call and monitoring outcomes. Previously he led Payments Optimization and IAM at Very Good Security, shipping card lifecycle, orchestration APIs, RBAC, SSO and developer-facing CLIs from 0 to 1. Comfortable managing teams of varied sizes and driving cross-functional roadmaps, he pairs a master's in AI systems with practical platform engineering chops. Notably, he introduced Kotlin expertise at scale and has a track record of turning complex security and payments requirements into reliable, production-ready APIs.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree with Distinction, Computer Sciences (Artificial Intelligence Systems), Information Systems and Networks department, Master's degree with Distinction, Computer Sciences (Artificial Intelligence Systems), Information Systems and Networks department at Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityTrainee Software Engineer, Java, Trainee Software Engineer, Java at Eleks Software AcademySecondary Education, English, Secondary Education, English at Lviv Linguistic Gymnasium
English, Ukrainian, Polish
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Github Skills (123)
identity10
saml10
authentication10
payment-gateway10
security10
payment-integration10
payment10
json10
openid-connect10
authorization10
adyen10
keycloak10
payment-processing10
compliance10
opa9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yyunikov/android-dim-block
Dec 2013 - Apr 2016
Contributions:38 commits, 7 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 3 months
dimkotlinandroidandroid-devices
yyunikov/yunikov-algorithms
Jun 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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