KYRYLO KALUGIN
Senior Solution Architect · Data Platforms & Cloud-Native Engineering
PROFILE
Senior Solution Architect / Delivery Architect profile combining 10+ years of engineering leadership with 25 years of hands-on development, focused on data platforms, AI/ML adoption, and cloud architecture in regulated financial services (FSI). I have owned data, analytics, and platform domains across global market data providers, investment banks, and exchange infrastructure, from event-driven trading systems to Lakehouse-style data platform migrations on AWS.
I operate in a player-coach model and act as a trusted advisor on cloud, data, and AI architecture decisions, including platform migrations, architecture adoption, dependency reduction, and production stabilisation. I have hands-on experience designing data pipelines (SQL/NoSQL, Spark/PySpark, ETL), shaping data management controls (data contracts, lineage, quality gates), running GenAI workflows in production (LLM agents, MCP servers, A2A integration patterns, vector search with pgVector), and translating architecture options into customer-facing solution narratives.
I target Senior Solution Architect / Delivery Architect scope in data and AI: technical pre-sales discovery, use case prioritization, proof-of-concept delivery, post-sale architecture ownership, and long-term customer success in FSI and enterprise data platforms.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Engineering Leadership
Domain & Product Ownership
Technical Depth
Engineering Excellence & Platform Thinking
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Data & AI: Databricks (certified) · Spark / PySpark · ETL · Data management · Data contracts · Lakehouse concepts · pgVector / vector search · LLM agentic workflows · MCP servers · A2A patterns · GenAI guardrailing · PII handling · Pandas · IBM Cognos · ML pilots
- Programming: Python · Java · TypeScript · JavaScript · PHP · SQL
- Cloud & Platform: AWS · Azure · GCP · Docker · Jenkins · CI/CD · LSEG Data & Analytics Platform
- Architecture: Data Platform · Event-Driven (MQ, streaming) · Microservices · API/REST · High-Load Systems · MCP integration
- Databases: SQL · NoSQL · MongoDB · PostgreSQL / pgVector
- Tooling: JIRA · Monday.com · Clarity PPM · MS Project · Confluence
EDUCATION
- Master of Computer Sciences · National Aviation University, Kyiv · 2004
- PMI-PMP® · PMI-ACP® · PMI-CPMAI® (In Progress) · AWS Certified Solutions Architect · Azure Cloud Certifications · IELTS / Cambridge CAE (C1/C2 English)
LANGUAGES
- English (fluent, C1/C2 — IELTS / Cambridge CAE)
- Ukrainian (Native)
- Russian (Fluent)
- German (Basic)
- Turkish (Basic)
INDEPENDENT ENGINEERING
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NWH — Narysy Warehouse Platform
2015 – Present · Lead Developer
Full-stack ERP and analytics platform (Java, SQL, NoSQL, EDI integrations, Docker) for distribution-heavy operations. Sole owner of data modelling, security design, ETL pipeline architecture, and platform evolution; maintains 99% uptime SLA against EDI consumer contracts. Primary hands-on engineering focus 2019–2021.
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RaceMetrica
2023 – Present · Founder & Lead Architect
Real-time athlete tracking and performance analytics platform (TypeScript, WebSockets, React, Docker) handling high-concurrency, low-latency data streams for live event tracking. Full ownership of system design, infrastructure operations, and automated testing pipeline. Actively uses LLM agentic workflows — OpenAI API, Claude/Codex-assisted development — to accelerate feature delivery and maintain engineering velocity as a solo operator.
EXPERIENCE
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LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) via EPAM
Senior Engineering Manager / Delivery Programme Manager
February 2021 – June 2025 · Remote
Embedded as Snr. Engineering Manager in LSEG's US Government Instruments programme — a complex, regulated, multi-team environment undergoing simultaneous cloud migration and organisational restructuring. Owned end-to-end engineering delivery across a growing portfolio: starting from a single project, scaling to ownership of a programme of 28 concurrent projects with 100+ FTE across multiple cross-functional engineering, product, architecture, and PMO stakeholders.
- Scaled end-to-end engineering delivery from 1 to 28 concurrent projects with 100+ FTE across 22 cross-functional engineering, product, architecture, and PMO stakeholder groups — without adding headcount.
- Restored 17 of 18 projects (94%) from RED to GREEN status through structured recovery plans, governance redesign, blocker removal, and executive re-alignment — under high ambiguity and organisational pressure.
- Architected and delivered an internal Delivery Intelligence Platform (TypeScript, React, MongoDB; integrated with Monday.com, Clarity, SharePoint, and AI tooling) — consolidating multi-source project data into a real-time risk and finance dashboard, reducing manual reporting burden by ~80%.
- Drove migration of a mission-critical 30-year-old financial platform to AWS — owning architecture alignment, dependency governance, and production stabilisation end-to-end; migration reduced production incidents by 90%+.
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Refinitiv / Thomson Reuters via EPAM
Engineering Manager — Cloud Transformation & Team Ownership
October 2018 – June 2019 · Offshore
Joined as Engineering Manager and Scrum Master embedded in Refinitiv's mission-critical data pipeline engineering. Rapidly expanded mandate to include Resource Manager responsibilities across multiple engineering teams.
- Owned cloud transformation delivery across 18 concurrent engineering teams on a shared codebase — coordinating fixed release cycles, strict availability SLAs, and cross-team dependency resolution.
- Led architectural pivot from legacy SOAP/REST integrations to AWS Message Queue (MQ) event-driven patterns — introducing data contracts that eliminated cross-team release dependencies and enabled independent service deployments.
- As Resource Manager: conducted 20+ engineering interviews per year, grew the team to 11 FTE, implemented structured PDPs and HR health checks, and ran a scalable mentoring programme — improving retention and seniority progression.
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Citibank Development Center via Luxoft
Technical Delivery Manager — DevOps & CI/CD
June 2018 – October 2018
Led a fast-track initiative to deploy Citibank's product next-generation customer onboarding platform — with a mandate to achieve the fastest user onboarding in the market through a mobile-first UX and fully automated delivery pipeline. The product had a significant amount of experimentations, from the state-of-art UI/UX approaches to new technology stack of backend (Kotlin). Fully owned the product's uptime SLAs, deployment strategy, incident response teams within different time zones.
- Delivered a mobile-first customer onboarding platform end-to-end: from UX requirements through CI/CD pipeline implementation (AWS, Jenkins) to production go-live — achieving a 2-screen retail banking onboarding flow, the fastest time-to-onboard in the client's market segment.
- Managed 16 FTE via Agile/Scrum, enforcing banking-grade quality gates and stakeholder alignment across time zones.
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Deutsche Bank Development Center via Luxoft
Lead Business Analyst → Project Manager → Programme Manager
February 2011 – June 2018
Progressive career trajectory across Deutsche Bank's trading platform — starting as Lead Business Analyst on a mission-critical real-time trading platform migration, advancing to Engineering (Project) Manager of the team, and ultimately promoted to Off-Site Programme Manager overseeing a portfolio of 108 FTE across 7 trading-domain projects, owning the product roadmaps and responsible for the implementation.
- Progressed to Programme Manager owning 108 FTE across 7 trading-domain projects; designed and built a real-time project health dashboard (PHP, JavaScript, JIRA API) that eliminated manual reporting cycles for engineering and executive stakeholders.
- As Lead Business Analyst (BA): reduced change requests by 60% and shortened development and testing cycles by ~50% through structured requirements management.
- Mentored 6 Project Managers to Senior PM / Programme Manager level; led CI/CD pipeline adoption (Jenkins) for KYC/AML platforms with banking-grade quality gates.
ENGINEERING CULTURE, COMMUNITY, AND LEADERSHIP
Leadership that extends beyond team boundaries — building communities, sharing knowledge, and contributing to engineering culture:
- Communities of Practice (CoP) Framework — designed and successfully integrated a company-wide Communities of Practice framework, a structured knowledge-sharing, professional development programme adopted across the organisation, as a part of Luxoft HPC: Luxoft High Performers Club initiative for senior company managers.
- Mentoring – as a successful Luxoft High Performers Club alumni, mentored new HPC senior PM on a company level.
- Technical Community Building — OSCE-Sponsored Events (2008): Presented technical sessions on "High-Load Optimisations for Web Platforms" (nginx/Java-proxying, WordPress at scale) at international (3 countries, up to 100 participants, UA/LT/GE) non-profit community events sponsored by the OSCE — contributing to early-stage social and technical community building in the region.
- Running Community — EPAM: Founded and led an employee running community at EPAM, embedded in the company's wellbeing culture. Organised training programmes and prepared colleagues to participate in competitive running events across Ukraine — building team cohesion and promoting a high-performance wellbeing culture.
- Triathlon Coaching — World Triathlon Community Coach (certified): co-leading a youth triathlon club, applying structured performance coaching methodology to athlete development. The same principles — goal setting, data and metrics (using own RaceMetrica app for result tracking and analytics), long-term planning, proactive risk management, and resilience under pressure — are directly transferable to engineering team leadership and organisational development.
Contacts
- Open for immediate relocation
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- kyrylo.kalugin@gmail.com
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