Summary
David Chaava is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, low-latency backend systems and leading engineering teams. He specializes in Java and Kotlin microservices on cloud-native platforms (OpenShift/SberCloud) and brings deep operational experience in Kafka, PostgreSQL, and performance tuning for mission-critical services like ATM transaction processing and monitoring. As a technical lead and architect at Sberbank he drove CI/CD, fault-tolerant designs, PCI/DSS deployments, and platform components used across multiple teams while mentoring engineers. At Akvelon he expanded into cross-cloud tooling and SDK/sample development for Azure CosmosDB, combining backend expertise with automation and DB optimization research. Colocated in Belgrade, he pairs pragmatic engineering discipline (SOLID/DRY, testable code) with a strong focus on availability and observability. Colleagues know him for moving quickly from concept to production and for finding subtle performance wins in complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at North-Caucasus State Technical University