
Anastasiya Solodkaya
@anastasiyasolodkaya
I deliver digital systems, recover critical programs, and lead architecture across banking, payments, and transformation.
What I'm looking for
At Mashreq, I lead business-to-technology delivery for critical payments programs, including the UAE Open Finance LFI channel from MVP scope through certification and F&F.
I recover constrained delivery programs, make architecture decisions that balance time-to-market with operational risk, and build backend capability through hiring, mentoring, standards, and onboarding. Previously, I led regional technical delivery at Tinext and delivered architecture and transformation work across banking, insurance, and government.
My career began in hands-on Java engineering, including Java compatibility and conformance work at Oracle. I bring 19+ years of experience turning how a business makes money, operates, and grows into practical systems that can reach production.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led business-to-technology delivery for business-critical programs, finding the fastest viable path from business goals to production.
- Zero-to-one / Open Finance: shaped the MVP scope, technical approach, architecture and delivery path for the UAE Open Finance (LFI) program, taking it through to certification and F&F.
- Delivery recovery: took over a troubled local payments program for Pakista
Improved backend architecture, reliability and engineering practices across an existing automation platform, while contributing hands-on to product development.
- Architecture: mapped the full migration scope and effort, challenged a disproportionate database redesign, aligned product stakeholders and the technical team on a simpler alternative, and cut four months from the projected delivery tim
Owned technical leadership for the GCC region, from pre-sales and architecture through delivery and go-live, stepping in on critical production incidents when needed.
- Regional technical leadership: led technical delivery across multi-party programs, coordinating internal engineers, vendors and client teams from pre-sales and architecture through go-live, warranty and upgrades.
- Program delive
Combined hands-on solution design and delivery with technical leadership, team building and client-facing work across international projects.
- UBS / solution delivery: designed and delivered microservices for a Data Quality Management Framework, while strengthening team delivery practices across requirements, deployment and quality assurance.
- Technical leadership: led feature design and imple
Continued JCK work after relocating to Bengaluru, while transferring domain knowledge, training new engineers and handing over part of my project ownership.
Worked on Oracle’s Java Compatibility Kit, driving JVM/JDK specification coverage, conformance testing and tooling for Java 8–10.
- Java conformance: contributed to JCK deliveries for JDK 8, 9 and 10 across JVM, JNI, JVMTI and JDK specifications; increased JVMS 8/9 specification coverage by 47%.
- JVMS quality: identified 42% of all critical JVMS defects reported during the JDK 9 release cycle
Trained and mentored ~115 aspiring software engineers across 8 Java cohorts, from beginner fundamentals through junior-level development.
- Beginner Java: 3 cohorts, ~55 learners
- Intermediate Java: 2 cohorts, ~30 learners
- Junior Java: 3 cohorts, ~30 learners
Technical Stack: Java, JUnit, Spring, JDBC, JPA, Hibernate, MySQL, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, Maven, Git, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Java
Co-founded and technically led a logistics technology startup, taking the concept from early business discovery through MVP architecture, team formation and initial market validation.
- Product & architecture: worked with the business co-founder to define the initial scope and designed the MVP architecture for a platform connecting logistics suppliers, customers and subcontractors.
- Team leade
My role evolved from hands-on development into informal technical leadership, with ownership of major architectural changes across several trading products.
- Technical leadership: took ownership of major architecture decisions and implementation across dxCharts, dxTrade and dxBinary, delivering ~12 significant architectural changes — around 24% of the projects’ major architecture work during the
Built and delivered a client-server administration application for the Ariadna medical information system, used for user management, system configuration and access control.
Successfully deployed and put into operation across 3 clinics.
Technical Stack: Java, JUnit, Swing, JDBC, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, SQL, PL/SQL
Developed Java applications for web integration, messaging and logistics systems, including early technical ownership on a logistics platform.
Technical Stack: Java, AWT, Swing, JDBC, MySQL, Java Applets
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Issued Jan 2025
Scrum Alliance
Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)
Issued Jan 2024
Coursera
Fintech: Foundations & Applications of Financial Technology
Issued Jun 2023
Coursera
Foundations of Project Management
Issued Apr 2023
Coursera
Business Foundations
Issued Jun 2021
Coursera
Software Processes and Agile Practices
Issued Aug 2021
Coursera
Writing Skills for Engineering Leaders
Issued Aug 2020
Coursera
Self Awareness and the Effective Leader
Issued Aug 2020
Coursera
Interpersonal Communication for Engineering Leaders
Issued Aug 2020
Coursera
Financial Markets
Issued Jun 2020
Coursera
Introduction to Software Product Management
Issued Jun 2020
Coursera
Functional Programming in Scala Specialization (Scala, Spark, Big Data analysis) by École Polytechni
Issued Feb 2019
Coursera
Kotlin for Java Developers
Issued Apr 2019
Oracle
Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 7 Programmer (1Z0-804)
Issued Oct 2013
Oracle
Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 7 Programmer (1Z0-803)
Issued Sep 2013
Saint Petersburg State University
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Information Technology
2004 - 2011
2004 - 2007 - Department of Physics
2007 - 2012 - Department of Mathematics and Mechanics (Department of software engineering)
Adobe
Certified Flex 3 and AIR ACE
Issued Jan 2010
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Kubernetes
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Microsoft SQL Server
Cassandra
Spring Boot
Spring
Spring Framework
Atmosphere
Bootstrap
Redis
React
jQuery
AngularJS
GWT
Grunt
JavaScript
Python
Java
CoffeeScript
Java EE
ActionScript
Kafka
Flask
Grafana
Prometheus
Hibernate
Windows Server
Elasticsearch
TypeScript
pytest
JUnit
Git
Docker
Apache HTTP Server
JBoss
SQL
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Salary expectations
Social media
Job categories
Skills
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