Oleksii Shykun
About Oleksii Shykun
Oleksii Shykun is a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience in software development and engineering roles across various companies. He has worked at Shopmonkey, Zoolatech, and GlobalLogic, specializing in backend development and database optimization.
Work at Shopmonkey
Oleksii Shykun currently serves as a Senior Software Engineer at Shopmonkey, a position he has held since 2021. He works remotely from Poland. Prior to this role, he was a Team Lead for the Mobile API team at Shopmonkey for six months in 2021 while based in Ukraine. Additionally, he worked as a Senior Software Engineer in the Backend Core team from 2020 to 2021. His experience at Shopmonkey spans multiple roles, contributing to various aspects of software engineering.
Previous Experience in Software Engineering
Before joining Shopmonkey, Oleksii Shykun worked at Zoolatech, LLC as a Senior Node.js Software Engineer from 2018 to 2020 in the Kiev Region, Ukraine. His career also includes positions at GlobalLogic, where he held roles as a Node.js Software Engineer from 2016 to 2017 and as a Java Software Engineer from 2015 to 2016. He began his career in software engineering at Infopulse, where he worked as a Java Software Engineer and Test Engineer from 2008 to 2013.
Education and Expertise
Oleksii Shykun studied at the National Aviation University Institute of Computer Science, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from 2007 to 2011. He continued his education at the same institution, achieving a Master's degree in Computer Science from 2011 to 2012. His educational background provides a strong foundation in software development and engineering principles.
Technical Skills and Contributions
Oleksii Shykun has specialized in optimizing MongoDB databases, focusing on collecting slow query metrics and improving index usage. He has experience in developing dashboards in Grafana to monitor database performance metrics. His technical contributions include refactoring MongoDB aggregation pipelines to enhance code efficiency and contributing to the development of a new platform from scratch.