Bohdan Shtepan

Meta•Production Engineer•London, UK 🇬🇧

Short bio

With over a decade of experience leading high-impact software engineering projects across diverse domains, I bring a proven track record of delivering scalable, innovative solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. At companies like Lyft, Fiverr, and Exabeam, I’ve architected distributed systems, led cross-functional teams, and shipped features that significantly improved system reliability and user engagement. My work consistently reflects a focus on technical excellence, thoughtful collaboration, and a deep understanding of real-world product impact. I’m continuously driven by solving complex problems and building systems that last.

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Work Experience

Production Engineer

Meta•London, UK 🇬🇧•Full-time

Aug 2025 - Present

Lead Software Engineer

Blackbird Lab•Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸•Full-time

Mar 2024 - Aug 2025

Designed and built a distributed video delivery network for Ad Tech, adopted by over 25,000 clients worldwide. Used Go, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.
Led the design and implementation of a smart charger monitoring and management system, achieving adoption by 10+ (S&P 500) customers. Used Python, Django, React, and PostgreSQL.
Built and shipped an AI charger diagnostic assistant, achieving a decrease in single-charger error rate by 35% (observed), and an increase in charger stability by 50% (observed). Used Python, JavaScript, and OpenAI GPT-4.

Senior Software Engineer

Imubit•Full-time

Aug 2023 - Jan 2024

Designed and built a multi-language solution to increase non-English users' involvement achieving 100% adoption by customers from Germany, France, and Hungary. Used Python, JavaScript, React and GitLab.
Drove CI/CD pipeline architecture improvements by leveraging artifacts caching layer and dedicated workers achieving 99.99% pipeline SLA. Used Nexus, Docker, and GitLab.

Software Engineer

Lyft•Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦•Full-time

Oct 2022 - May 2023

Led the design and implementation of a set of client-facing features that led to a 16% increase in the conversion rate of in-app scheduled rides. Used Go, Python, and PostgreSQL.
Successfully developed and shipped integrations for two external partnerships, resulting in $40M in revenue. Utilized strong project management, communication, and technical skills to navigate complex requirements and deliver high-quality solutions that met the needs of both internal and external stakeholders. Used Python, Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Hive.

Education

Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Cereal processing technology

2010 - 2014

Skills

Distributed systemsBig dataData structures and algorithmsOOPTDDGo

Senior Software Engineer

Fiverr•Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦•Full-time

Nov 2021 - Aug 2022

Designed and built a multi-language solution to increase non-English users' involvement which seen to an increase in a conversion rate by 7.5%. Used Kotlin, TypeScript, Kafka, NodeJS, MongoDB, Amazon S3.
Led company-wide development of a new localization service that enabled easier application language and localization management at a multi-million user scale. Used Kotlin, Kafka, MongoDB, Ruby, and PostgreSQL.
Developed and shipped a handful of in-house tools for internal content moderation which led to an increase in spam and abusive content detection efficiency by 35%. Used Kotlin, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Ruby, RoR, and PostgreSQL.

Lead Software Engineer

Exabeam•Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦•Full-time

Apr 2017 - Oct 2021

Led a team of 3 engineers to build a big-data ingestion pipeline with 99.99% availability, that was adopted by 90% of customers. Built using Python, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB.
uilt and deployed a production-grade monitoring system across 100+ clusters, achieving availability of 99.9% in 2020, and adoption by 150+ customers. Used Go, Prometheus, Watchdog, and Datadog.
Led the design and implementation of 15+ backend services across 30 engineers. Delivered 2nd most lines-of-code committed and code reviews out of 14 team members. Used Python, Go, and Scala.
Developed and shipped over 30 customer-facing features which were incorporated by 130+ customers worldwide, including 16 from the Fortune 500 list and 3 in the government sector. Built using Scala and JavaScript.
Drove architecture improvements by adopting SOA architecture, utilizing CI/CD practices, which enabled multi-node scale leading to an increase in availability to 99.9% and 100% performance boost. Used Python, Docker, and Ansible.
Improved maintainability of core services by migrating the code-base to Python 3, reducing total LOC from 120,000 to 90,000, and integrating code coverage tools into the CI pipeline used across 4 departments and 70+ developers.

Software Engineer

Praxent•Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦•Full-time

Jul 2016 - Apr 2017

Built and rolled out an image processing pipeline, supporting 100-200 concurrent tasks, for an IoT project hosted on 100+ machines around the continent. Built using JavaScript, Node.js (Electron), and Angular.js.
Scaled up an online ticketing platform by adopting microservice architecture which led to an increase in availability to 99.5%, latency decrease by 40%, and 2x performance boost. Used C#, ASP.NET, React, and SQL Server.
Improved the availability of the user-facing e-commerce web service from 95% to 99.9% by implementing and rolling out a read-through object cache layer. Built using Redis, PHP, and WordPress.

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Elance-oDesk•Freelance

Jan 2014 - Mar 2016

Designed and built a B2C e-commerce experience offering product catalog, user management, and checkout page witch outgrown to an average 310,000 monthly users in the first year. Built using PHP, WordPress, and MySQL.
Developed and integrated user auth service offering RBAC security and rate-limiting policies which led to a decrease in system resources usage by 20% and server latency drop by 35%. Built using C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.
Developed notification service to send e-commerce promotions which lead to a 70% conversion rate increase. Built using PHP, MySQL, and Mailchimp.