Vitalii Konchyts

Engineering Manager

About Me

  • Engineering leader with 9+ years of experience across R&D, ML/AI and Data Platform engineering and 4+ years of experience of leading high-performing teams across data, ML and AI domains.
  • Experienced in building and scaling engineering organizations that deliver robust Data Platforms, ML infrastructure, and production-grade systems.
  • Adept at leading technical strategy, growing high-performing teams, and partnering with product and research to deliver data-driven solutions at scale. Passionate about fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement in fast-paced, evolving environments.

Qualifications

  • People & Teams Leadership: Cross-Functional Collaboration, Performance Management, Technical Leadership, Goal Setting & Allignment, Engineering Culture Development
  • Technical Leadership: System Design, High-Load Architecture, Data Platform Engineering, iData Infrastructure, ML Platforms, MLOps, Reliability Engineering
  • Tech Stack & Tools: Python, SQL, Airflow, FastAPI, AWS Athena, dbt, Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes, Terraform, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Kubeflow, Gitlab CI/CD, AWS, GCP

Experience

GR8 Tech

https://gr8.tech/

Senior Engineering Manager

January 2025 — present

  • Leading 5 engineering teams comprising 30+ engineers across Data Platform, ML and DevOps disciplines.
  • Setting strategic direction for engineering and infrastructure projects aligned with company-wide objectives.
  • Driving architectural decisions and operational excellence for high-load, real-time data systems.
  • Managing team leads, fostering cross-team collaboration, and scaling engineering practices to support high-growth environments.
  • Collaborating closely with product, analytics, and executive leadership to prioritize initiatives and deliver business value.
  • Responsible for the technical solution of the whole data platform and services on top of it.

Technologies: AWS, Tableau, Airflow, Spark, Flink, dbt, Python, Java/Scala, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, Kafka, Generative AI.

Engineering Manager

May 2022 — Dec 2024

  • Leadership of two teams (12 people).
  • Designed and built a high-load, distributed recommendation platform, increasing GGR by 8%.
  • Deployment of ML models into production as web services, real-time and batch jobs.
  • Designed, built and deployed multiple generative AI products (text & image generation) using fine-tuned and diffusion models.
  • Served as a course creator and lecturer in the company's Data Engineering Academy for 30+ students. More than half of students become interns within the company.
  • Responsible for the technical solution of the core data platform team.
  • Designed and built DSL for implementation of Athena Table Permissions based on Terraform, increasing the delivering of role/permissions changes up to 3 times.
  • Designed and built DSL for implementation of Row-Level Security based on AWS.

Technologies: AWS, Airflow, Python, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, Kafka, Tableau.

Senior Data Engineer

June 2021 — April 2022

  • Designed and implemented a data processing platform based on Airflow and AWS instead of legacy DWH based on NiFi and PostgreSQL.
  • Implemented DSL for implementation of Transforms in ETL based on AWS Athena.
  • Implemented everything-as-a-code.
  • In the team, we completely reworked the existing architecture due to rapid business changes.

Technologies: AWS, Airflow, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Tableau.

SoftServe

https://www.softserveinc.com/

Lead Data Engineer

June 2021 — October 2021

Senior Data Engineer

October 2020 — May 2021

Client: Dyson

  • Designed and implemented scalable data pipelines to ingest and process advertising data from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pinterest, and other sources.
  • Built reliable aggregates and analytical datasets in BigQuery, enabling marketing and business teams to analyze performance across channels.
  • Developed and maintained batch and streaming workflows using Airflow, DataFlow, and Cloud Functions.
  • Worked across functional teams (data analysts, marketing, product) to align delivery with business KPIs.

Technologies: Python, SQL, GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, DataFlow, Terraform, Jenkins.

Echo

https://echoglobal.tech

Software Engineer

August 2019 — October 2020

Worked(outstaff/outsource) on client engagements across Data, DS and ML domains.

  • Client/Project name: KeplerFI
    • Designed and implemented a distributed forecasting service to evaluate and serve multiple time series prediction algorithms (ARIMA, Prophet, custom models).
    • Worked closely with data scientists and academic collaborators to translate research prototypes into scalable backend components.
    • Created a lightweight visualization dashboard to inspect forecast outputs, model comparisons, and performance metrics.
    • Ensured reproducibility, fault tolerance, and parallel processing via asynchronous task queues and containerized services.

Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Redis, Pandas, NumPy, sklearn, ARIMA, Plotly/Dash.

JetSoftPro

https://jetsoftpro.com/

Software Engineer

February 2018 — July 2019

Worked(outstaff/outsource) on multiple client engagements across Data, DS and ML domains.

  • Client/Project name: Kunai Ernst&Young
    • Implemented DSL for defining and executing DAG-based workflows with support for parallel task execution.
    • Developed scalable REST API for document image processing and text extraction using OCR.
    • Developed the service to handle asynchronous requests with support for batch uploads and result polling.
    • Contributed to frontend features and UI fixes using Angular.
  • Client/Project name: CreatorIQ
    • Designed and built multiple applications for automated image generation.
    • Developed and maintained data aggregation pipelines using Apache Airflow and Amazon Redshift, enabling internal reporting.

Technologies: Python, C++, Flask, AWS (EKS, Redshift, Lambda), Postgres, MongoDB, Airflow, Kubernetes, Celery, TensorFlow, PyTorch.

ReligionPeace

https://religionpeace.com

Software Engineer

February 2017 — February 2018

  • Designed and implemented backend services for key social network features, including user profiles, DMs, group chats, feeds, friend relations, comments, posts, and photo/audio/video content.
  • Modeled complex interrelations between data entities using advanced data structures and custom algorithms.
  • Optimized database queries and indexing strategies to meet strict non-functional requirements (NFRs) for latency, scalability, and consistency.
  • Developed secure APIs for payments, content moderation, and user authentication.
  • Worked closely with frontend developers and product stakeholders to ship new features in a fast-paced startup environment.

Technologies: Python, Django, REST API, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Docker, AWS.

CityScale

https://www.cityscale.com.ua

Software Engineer

May 2016 — January 2017

  • Developed robust data pipelines to collect, clean, and normalize heterogeneous data from public APIs, web scraping, and file-based datasets (CSV, JSON, images).
  • Integrated external datasets on crime rates, pollution, transport, education, and more into a geospatial search interface.
  • Applied image recognition techniques to extract features (e.g., bus stations, crosswalks) from satellite or street-level imagery.

Technologies: Python, BeautifulSoup/Scrapy, OpenCV, NumPy, Pandas, matplotlib, Postgres/PostGIS, Docker.

Education

Lviv Polytechnic National University

Master’s degree, Applied mathematics

2014 - 2019

Certifications

Google Cloud Certified Proffesional Data Engineer

Google

2020

Languages

Ukrainian: native, English: fluent, Russian: fluent