Leonid Koftun

Full-Stack Software Engineer and Technical Lead with 10 years of experience in cloud application development. Proficient in requirements gathering, architecture planning, and leading cross-functional teams for optimal solutions.

leonid.koftun@gmail.com // from Munich, Bavaria // speaks English, German, Russian and French

Professional Experience

Founder - Kigana - March 2021 - present

Designed, implemented and launched a cloud-based childcare management software (Next.js, NestJS, React Native, AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, Auth0, Stripe, Cypress)
Managed the product requirements, roadmap and priorities in close collaboration with customers (Requirements Engineering, Product Management, Kanban)

Technical Lead - Device Insight GmbH, Munich, March 2022 - present

Worked closely with stakeholders, collecting, refining and documenting requirements for new IoT Systems (Requirements Engineering, Kanban)
Facilitated technical discussions and decisions, ensuring alignment in Agile team (Technical Leadership, Architecture)
Trained and mentored developers, helping them to grow their skills and advance their careers (Mentoring, Pair Programming)

Software Engineer - Device Insight GmbH, Munich, December 2017 - February 2022

Delivered more than five Industrial IoT projects in the sectors: Automotive, Asset Management and Energy Optimization.
Developed event-driven microservice architectures on the Azure Cloud (Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, NodeJS, Typescript, Azure Event Hubs, IaC, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, Kotlin, Serverless)
Innovated deployment and development processes by introducing tools and methodologies (Flux CD, Renovate, Storybook, Durable Functions)

Software Developer - SUBSEQ.NET GmbH, Munich, October 2013 - November 2017

Created, published and maintained multiple web apps: “insta.vote” (online polls), “ipwatch.dog” (dynamic DNS), “nxt.is” (URL shortener) (Java, Spring Boot, Ebean ORM, Postgres, Vue JS)
Led the rewrite of the legacy Android app “fishpixl” and introduced it successfully to the Google Play Store (React Native, Android, Redux)
Prepared reusable modules for an internal framework, enabling rapid bootstrapping of new apps (Spring Boot, Postgres, Ebean ORM, Maven, Javascript)
Maintained the development infrastructure including Docker Cloud, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Gitlab CE, Linux.

Education

Werner-von-Siemens Gymnasium, Munich, July 2013

Higher education entrance qualification / BAC (Final Grade: 2.7)

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, September 2013 - August 2015

B. Sc. Computer Science (partial)

Wilhelm-Büchner-Fernhochschule, September 2016 - 2021