Summary
Yuriy Zubarev is a Director of Software Engineering with 15+ years building and scaling high-performance teams and products across eCommerce, cloud infrastructure, and recruiting technology. He has led large global organizations—most recently defining Amazon’s recruitment technology strategy as a single-threaded leader for a 70-person org—and delivered measurable business impact like 40% faster time-to-hire and 15% lower cost-per-hire through operational modernization and GenAI integration. Deeply experienced in legacy modernization and automation, he has driven portfolio consolidations, reduced deployment times from months to weeks, and launched high-SLA services such as S3 replication features. Known for translating C-suite priorities into technical roadmaps, Yuriy is also passionate about sustainable team building and career development, with a track record of turning adversarial cultures into collaborative, promotable engineering environments. Based in Victoria, BC, he combines hands-on architectural chops from early Java and systems work with contemporary GenAI and cloud strategies, making him effective at both execution and long-term strategy.
15 years of coding experience