About

Vladislav Socolov is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in building cloud-native services and scalable products. He is currently working at Elsevier as part of the backend team, where he has contributed to the development of a high-performance distributed system based on Microservices architecture. Vladislav is customer-focused and dedicated to delivering the highest quality of work, as well as being highly adaptable in changing teams and business requirements. Vladislav has proven expertise in leading migrations, including the migration from MySql to DynamoDB, which considerably increased system performance. He also led the re-write of one of the search services by deprecating Algolia and introducing ElasticSearch, which helped to reduce cost and system latency. Additionally, Vladislav has participated in building project cloud infrastructure using Terraform and AWS and led the migration and decomposition of the initial monolithic architecture from AWS Elasticbeanstalk to a microservice architecture using AWS Fargate. He has also designed a new event-based architecture using Kafka, which helped to process author research data in real-time. In his previous roles, Vladislav worked at Yoox Net-a-Porter Group and Tacit Knowledge, where he was responsible for designing and building REST-ful services, maintaining and extending CoreMedia components, and integrating payment providers. He also helped design scalable, maintainable, and extendable solutions as part of the delivery process. Vladislav holds a Master's degree and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei. He has a strong technical background, with experience in AWS, Microservices, Terraform, Research Scientist, MySQL, Elastic Search, Kafka, Search, Backend, infra, and Java. Overall, Vladislav has 9.12 years of relevant experience and is a valuable asset to any team looking for a skilled and adaptable Senior Software Engineer.