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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.

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# experience

Software Engineering Team Lead

@ EPAM Systems · McKesson

Oct 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 / OSTTRA

Mar 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 · LSEG

Dec 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 Group

Apr 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