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Vladislav Ussenko

@vladislavussenko

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I am a software engineer specializing in scalable cloud-native systems and high-throughput backend architectures.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm seeking senior backend or cloud engineering roles where I can build scalable, resilient systems, lead small teams, improve CI/CD and observability, and work in a collaborative, impact-driven environment with growth opportunities.

I am a software engineer with 6+ years building scalable, high-throughput systems for large platforms such as DIRECTV (12M+ users) and Kaspi.kz (13M+ users). I migrated infrastructure to the cloud achieving a 4× throughput increase, rewrote a primary CMS in Next.js on AWS Lambda, and cut automated testing failures by ~85%, accelerating delivery from 3 hours to 20 minutes.

I led a team of five at Kaspi.kz to automate partner onboarding—reducing integration time from two months to one minute—built monitoring that cut incident response time by 40%, and designed microservices for account management and same-day POS ordering. I work across TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS, and I quickly learn new technologies to solve production-scale problems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Software Engineer

DIRECTV

Jan 2022 - Dec 2024 (2 years 11 months)

Migrated infrastructure to the cloud, increasing system throughput 4x, and rewrote the main CMS in Next.js running on AWS Lambda. Co-designed a cloud-native architecture with CI/CD and monitoring and improved automated testing to cut failure rates ~85% and accelerate delivery from 3h to 20m across a 50+ developer org.

TypeScript Next.js AWS Lambda GraphQL RESTful APIs CI CD Cloudwatch Automated Testing

Software Engineer

Kaspi.kz

Feb 2019 - Oct 2021 (2 years 8 months)

Led a team of 5 engineers to streamline loan issuance and make it paperless, and designed microservices enabling 50K+ clients to manage loan accounts. Built backend monitoring and partner-onboarding automation that reduced incident response by 40% and shortened partner integration from 2 months to 1 minute, increasing new partner connections 5x.

Java Kotlin Spring Boot Quarkus PostgreSQL Docker Kubernetes RESTful APIs

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Outtalent

Software Engineering Fellowship, Software Engineering

2025 -

Activities and societies: 350+ hours of software engineering education with mentorship from engineers at Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Stripe, and Uber.

Enrolled in a 350+ hour Software Engineering Fellowship focused on distributed backend systems and algorithms with industry mentors, starting 2025.