Information

Employment: Full-time / Part-time
Expertise: BackEnd
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Work Experience: 4+ years

Skills

Java

Spring

Docker

PostgreSQL

Kafka

REST

Languages

Ukrainian Native

Russian Advanced

English Advanced

Professional background

Amir is a Java Backend Engineer with over four years of commercial experience developing distributed systems and high-load backend applications. He specializes in microservice architecture design, server-side logic development, and building high-performance solutions based on Java and Spring Boot.

He has experience working on projects in e-commerce, logistics, and iGaming. He has developed APIs with response times under 100 ms, search engines for databases with over 5 million records, real-time collaborative editing systems, and AI assistants with LLM and vector search integration.

Works with Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and AWS cloud infrastructure. Participates in all stages of development, from requirements analysis and architecture design to production deployment and ongoing support. He also has experience mentoring junior developers.

Technical skills

Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST API.
Working with data and messages: Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Qdrant.
Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes.
Real-time and AI: WebSockets, LLM Integration, Embeddings, Vector Search.

Education

Odesa National Polytechnic University
Specialty: "Software Engineering" (2021–2025).

SpaceLab Academy – AVADA MEDIA
Training in Java Backend Development.

IT STEP Academy
Additional training in Python programming.