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Denys Vakhovych
Java Tech Lead · Fintech & Payments
Hands-on Tech Lead with 9 years building financial systems — post-trade clearing, KYC/AML compliance, and retail banking. Regulated environments, distributed systems, high correctness requirements.
↓ download CV (pdf)# experience
Software Engineering Team Lead
@ EPAM Systems · McKessonOct 2024 – Present
- › Healthcare supply chain platform serving hospitals and healthcare providers across North America.
- › Dual-track delivery: feature development on a legacy Hybris e-commerce core alongside a new Spring Boot microservices layer being built in parallel.
Technical Lead
@ EPAM Systems · IHS Markit / OSTTRAMar 2021 – Sep 2024
- › TClear — a post-trade clearing system for Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX), Japan's primary financial derivatives exchange.
- › Covered the full post-trade lifecycle: FIX protocol trade ingestion, real-time position calculations, collateral management, and EOD operations. Processing ~680K FX contracts daily.
Senior Software Engineer
@ EPAM Systems · LSEGDec 2019 – Mar 2021
- › World-Check One — a KYC/AML risk intelligence platform used by global financial institutions for client screening and regulatory compliance.
- › Worked on the Universal Beneficial Ownership (UBO) module and later built a greenfield AWS-native ETL pipeline to migrate large entity databases into a unified format for downstream compliance systems.
Software Engineer
@ UKRSIBBANK · BNP Paribas GroupApr 2017 – Dec 2019
- › Internet banking platform for business clients at a BNP Paribas subsidiary — covering SWIFT-based payments, salary disbursements, and import/export transactions for legal entities.
# skills
Programming & Frameworks
- Java 21
- Spring Boot
- Spring MVC
- Spring Data
- Spring Security
- JPA
- Maven
- Gradle
- JUnit
- Cucumber
- Serenity BDD
Cloud & DevOps
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Helm
- Istio
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- GitHub Actions
Streaming & Messaging
- Kafka
- ActiveMQ
- RabbitMQ
- Amazon Kinesis
- gRPC
Observability
- ELK Stack
- Splunk
- Datadog
- Dynatrace
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Micrometer
- JProfiler
- AWS X-Ray
- SonarQube
Databases & Persistence
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- DynamoDB
- MongoDB
- Hibernate
- Redis
- Liquibase
Standards & Protocols
- FIX Protocol
- SWIFT
- ISO 20022
- REST
- OpenAPI
- Protocol Buffers
- PCI DSS
# education
Master's Degree in Software Engineering
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
2018 – 2020
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
2014 – 2018