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About me

About Me
Vladyslav Benkovskyi — portrait photograph

Hello! I’m Vlad Benkovskyi.
Principal Backend / Platform / Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience leading the design and evolution of distributed systems and data platforms across fintech, payments, and high-load environments. Specialized in building systems that must remain correct under real-world failure conditions: transaction-heavy flows, ledgers, payment pipelines, identity/KYC workflows, and event-driven integrations.

  • Name: Vlad Benkovskyi
  • Job: Principal Backend · Platform Engineer · Data Engineer
  • Focus: Distributed Systems · Data Infrastructure · Fintech Systems
  • Citizenship: Ukraine 🇺🇦
  • Residence: Kyiv · Open to remote / international roles
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Contacts: LinkedIn, GitHub, Upwork, Instagram, Leetcode
Experience
2026 — Present
Backend Platform Engineer / Data Engineer — Tacticstrade.ai, Kyiv, Ukraine

AI-based trading platform with full ownership of backend architecture, data infrastructure, and transaction processing.
Rust, Go, Node.js, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, ScyllaDB, Redis, GCP. Led the architecture of a time-series data platform spanning real-time ingestion, analytical processing (ClickHouse), and cold storage (GCS data lake). Architected a transaction processing system with a custodial ledger (idempotency, reconciliation, replay). Improved critical-path efficiency (-20% CPU, -15% memory).

2025 — 2026
Senior Python Developer — ItAdviser, Poland

Neo-banking platform (Revolut-like) with focus on platform architecture, auth/KYC, and distributed integrations.
Python, FastAPI, Keycloak, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, AWS. Drove architectural decisions for API gateway, auth/KYC services, and event-driven infrastructure. Designed an internal event-bus framework (Layerbus). Built KYC pipelines integrated with KYCAID and Sumsub.

2023 — 2024
Backend Engineer — Requestum, Remote

Backend and data systems for ML-heavy client projects. Designed ETL pipelines for video processing supporting ML training/inference, reproducible training/debugging pipelines with dataset versioning, and speech-processing pipelines (TTS, voice conversion).

2022 — 2023
Senior Backend Developer — Peppeernode, Kyiv, Ukraine

Owned backend systems for ordering and payments platform (Chowtime, Bookme). Built end-to-end QR-based ordering with POS integration; designed background processing and synchronization flows; integrated Zoom, Twilio, Google Calendar.

2021 — 2022
Main Backend Engineer — Canvagram, Toronto, Canada

Owned backend architecture and delivery; maintained system performance and data integrity in production.

2020 — 2021
Main Python Engineer — Sport Master Data SIA, Riga, Latvia

Payment systems aggregator and terminal infrastructure. Designed integrations with 40+ payment providers and banks; built an offline transaction processing pipeline connected to a central ledger; implemented reconciliation and fault-tolerant processing; designed crypto and fiat payment flows.

2019 — 2020
Senior Python Developer — Eblitz Gaming, London, UK

Built Pub/Sub-based service communication. Implemented async processing and backend optimizations.

2015 — 2019
Freelance Python Developer

Designed and delivered backend systems across healthcare, e-commerce, and trading. Built APIs, data models, integrations, and async processing pipelines.

Programming Languages
  • Python: Expert
    95%
  • Rust: Advanced
    75%
  • Go: Advanced
    70%
  • TypeScript: Intermediate
    60%
  • SQL: Advanced
    80%
  • Bash: Intermediate
    50%
Languages

English — B2 · Ukrainian — Native
EFSET B2 Upper-Intermediate certificate.

Soft Skills
  • Motivation
    95%
    95%
  • Communication
    80%
    80%
  • Purposefulness
    85%
    85%
  • Learnability
    90%
    90%
  • Cheerfulness
    98%
    98%
Core Expertise
  • Distributed Systems Architecture
  • Backend Platform Engineering
  • Data Platform Engineering (OLTP + OLAP + Data Lakes)
  • Event-Driven Systems & Async Pipelines
  • Ledger-Based Transactional Systems
  • Idempotency, Deduplication, Reconciliation, Replay
  • Fault-Tolerance & Recovery (Retries, DLQ, Reconciliation)
  • API Design, Versioning, Backward Compatibility
  • Auth / Identity (OAuth2, OIDC, RBAC, KYC)
  • Observability (Metrics, Logs, Tracing, Alerting)
  • Critical-Path Optimization & Resource Efficiency
  • SOLID, DDD, Hexagonal Architecture
  • REST, RPC, HTTP/1/2, ACID, CAP
Tech Stack
  • Python · Rust · Go · TypeScript
  • FastAPI · Django · Flask
  • Node.js · Gin
  • asyncio · aiohttp
  • PostgreSQL
  • ClickHouse
  • BigQuery
  • ScyllaDB
  • Firestore
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ
  • Google Pub/Sub
  • Celery
  • AWS
  • GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, GCS)
  • Docker · Linux
  • Cloudflare
  • Prometheus · Grafana · Loki
  • Cloud Logging · Cloud Monitoring
  • Keycloak · OAuth2 · OIDC
Achievements


Technical Content on YouTube
Educational content on AI / RAG systems and backend engineering.