Yakov Lipkovich
Senior Software Engineer at Tandems
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolYakov Lipkovich is a Senior Software Engineer based in Calgary with 12 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems for telecommunications and financial services. He combines a strong electrical and computer engineering background from the University of Calgary with hands-on expertise in Scala, Akka, AWS, and modern full-stack development to deliver performant applications and mentor engineering teams. Yakov has a track record of modernizing legacy systems, leading the first AWS-based app at SigFig, and translating complex requirements into clear technical proposals for satellite communications clients. Equally comfortable writing artisanal handcrafted code and producing production-grade documentation, he excels at debugging, team collaboration, and lifting team capability through code reviews and knowledge sharing. Notably, his consulting work shows an ability to adapt quickly to client needs and communicate technical tradeoffs in accessible terms.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary
English, Russian, Hebrew
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Github Skills (127)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
wooky/xtremettt
Feb 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 41 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 2 months
wooky/picalarm
May 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:57 pushes, 8 branches, 1 issue in 4 years 10 months
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