Olena Syrota

Olena Syrota is a Stanford Certified Project Manager with a clear understanding of building architecture, delivery processes, and cross-team communication.

With 4 years of architectural experience and holding the SEI Software Architecture Professional Certificate, Olena specializes in microservices architecture and ensuring quality attributes such as scalability, availability, and fault-tolerance.

She excels in documenting architecture, communicating effectively with teams and stakeholders on architecture matters, and sharing her expertise within the company through Architecture Kata sessions.

Olena's technical skills span over 20 years of programming experience with a focus on Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and microservices. She is well-versed in cloud technologies like AWS, deployment tools like Kubernetes and Terraform, as well as messaging systems such as Kafka and Apache Camel integration patterns.

Moreover, Olena has a strong background in CI/CD, security protocols like OIDC and SAML, and has been recognized in the industry as a JCP Award Nominee in 2015 for her work on JSR 367 'JSON Binding API'.

Aside from her professional achievements, Olena holds a Ph.D. in information technology from the National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute' and has a Master's Degree in applied mathematics from Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University.

Throughout her career, Olena has held various positions including Architect at Star, former PhD Lecturer at National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute', Java Team Lead at Intapp, Engineering Excellence Competency Center Education Stream Lead at EPAM Systems, MOOC Coordinator at EPAM Systems, Head of Educational Programs at EPAM Systems, Java Lab Lead at EPAM Systems, Java Team Lead at Corside Group, Senior Software Engineer at UBIS, and C++ developer at Topaz-Inform.