Summary
Olya Poluektova is a Berlin-based software engineer with 10+ years of backend and infrastructure experience, focused on building scalable, reliable systems with automation and performance in mind. Her career spans key roles at SoundCloud and Workday, where she contributed to infrastructure, monitoring platforms, and performance optimization across Java, Scala, Go, and cloud-native stacks. She brings strong operations tooling experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK), underpinned by a Master's in Information Security. Notably, she mentored new team members and participated in interviewing processes at Workday, reflecting leadership and a collaborative ethos. Her NLP-focused work at VIER and cloud analytics experience illustrate her ability to blend data-driven insights with scalable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Lviv Polytechnic National University
English, Ukrainian, German