Summary
Seattle, WA, USA | linkedin.com/in/vbondaryuk
Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years building real-time, large-scale distributed systems in the .NET ecosystem on Azure. At Microsoft, shipped live captioning and transcription for Microsoft Teams used by millions of users globally, and now lead AI-enabled developer-platform initiatives, including internal MCP servers, .NET 8, ARM64, Linux migration, and CI/CD modernization. Previously led 8-10 engineer teams at EPAM delivering enterprise platforms for Thomson Reuters, Refinitiv, and CPA Global.
Core Expertise
- Engineering Leadership: Technical strategy, team mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, hiring, and growth.
- Architecture & Design: Distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, Azure cloud, and system design.
- Operational Excellence: Incident response, RCA, reliability engineering, SLO/SLA ownership, and observability.
- AI & Developer Productivity: MCP servers, LLM-assisted tooling, and internal platform automation.
Professional Experience
Microsoft - Principal Software Engineer
- AI-enabled infrastructure: Leading high-impact initiatives involving AI-enabled internal MCP servers designed to automate and streamline complex operational processes, resulting in measurable gains in team productivity.
- Platform modernization and .NET evolution: Driving the strategic migration of business-critical projects to modern .NET platforms, ARM64 architecture, and Linux environments. Focused on leveraging the latest framework performance enhancements to ensure cross-platform compatibility and cloud cost optimization.
- Reliability and delivery velocity: Spearheading CI/CD delivery-pipeline optimization to reduce deployment latency and increase release frequency. Implementing automated testing and observability patterns to ensure high system availability and faster time-to-market for new features.
- Strategic leadership: Partnering with executive stakeholders to align technical roadmaps with strategic priorities, influencing major architectural decisions that define long-term product scalability.
- Engineering culture: Mentoring engineers and fostering a department-wide culture of innovation, continuous technical learning, and psychological safety.
Microsoft - Senior Software Engineer
- Scalable communication systems: Collaborated with cross-functional product and engineering teams to design and deliver real-time solutions for Microsoft Teams live captions and transcription services.
- User impact and accessibility: Developed and optimized core capabilities for live captioning, directly improving accessibility and the end-user experience for millions of global users.
- Technical governance: Participated in architecture discussions, code reviews, and process-improvement initiatives to ensure the quality, scalability, and reliability of high-traffic services.
EPAM Systems - Lead Software Engineer & Team Lead
- Team management: Led high-performing teams of 8-10 engineers on complex enterprise projects, managing technical planning, delivery, and mentorship.
- Cloud transformation: Managed technical execution for CPA Global projects, focusing on large-scale cloud migration strategies and architecture refactoring to improve system resilience.
- Financial systems development: Engineered enterprise software solutions for Thomson Reuters and Refinitiv, implementing performance tuning and optimizations that enhanced system reliability and throughput.
- Stakeholder alignment: Coordinated agile ceremonies and cross-team collaborations, serving as the primary technical point of contact for external stakeholders and product owners.
Luxoft - Senior Software Developer
- Banking solutions: Developed internal web applications for Raiffeisen Bank, enabling real-time dynamic updates under complex data models and strict performance requirements.
- Quality leadership: Led major architectural improvements and established rigorous code-review standards to maintain high system performance and operational stability.
- Mentorship: Guided junior developers and supported critical deployment and operational handoff processes to ensure 24/7 system availability.
Screen & Akforta - Software Developer
- High-load public systems: Built high-load software solutions for the Unified Automated Information System (UAIS) of the State Customs Service, ensuring robust processing of national data.
- ERP architecture: Designed and implemented ERP systems covering accounting, personnel, management, and warehouse-management operations.
- Mobile innovation: Spearheaded development of eLeed Cafe, an Android-based electronic menu system that digitized restaurant service workflows.
Early Career - IFS, Wimpex, Tien-Shan LTD
- Foundational engineering: Gained experience in enterprise software development, networking, and system administration.
- Process automation: Implemented electronic document-management systems, OCR integration, and electronic signature services to automate manual business processes.
Education
- Master of Science in Software Engineering - Kyrgyz State Technical University, 2006-2012.