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Volodymyr Pavlyshyn

Twenty-three years

From COBOL and Smalltalk to Rust, agentic memory and sovereign AI. It is a long list, and you probably want a slice of it — so filter it down to the part you came for.

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Present 2025

Affinidi

Founding Engineer · Senior Staff Engineer

Privacy-preserving identity and verifiable data infrastructure — founding engineer, returning

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  • Returning founding engineer; partner with the CTO and founding team on technical vision and architecture for agent identity and trust protocols.
  • Lead Office of CTO R&D initiatives: agent identity solutions, trust protocol specifications, agent reputation and trust registry design.
  • Define and communicate an agent architecture education programme across the engineering organisation.
2025 2023

Mykin.ai (Kin)

Founding Engineer · Principal Engineer / Architect

Privacy-first personal AI — local-first architecture, on-device ML, sovereign data

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  • Founding engineer; shaped technical vision alongside the CTO from the earliest stage and pioneered a local-first, edge-ML stack for mobile (React Native + Turso).
  • Designed and delivered core semantic memory for AI agents: a personal knowledge graph with vector search and clustering, on-device.
  • Established company-wide tech standards, a testing strategy for non-deterministic AI systems, and agentic data pipeline architecture.
  • Contributed directly to a $2M investment round; represented technical architecture to investors.
  • Partnered with Turso to enable vector search on mobile devices — a first for the platform.
2023 2020

Affinidi

Founding Engineer · Staff Engineer / SSI Architect

Self-sovereign identity platform and verifiable credentials infrastructure

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  • Founding engineer on the SSI platform; member of the architecture group and Office of CTO; led cross-company architectural reviews.
  • Delivered a working COVID verifiable credentials platform from zero to live airport integration in Singapore in four weeks.
  • Led L2-level DID/Sidetree protocol support for core identity services.
  • Introduced an Architecture Decision Log and C4 documentation discipline across engineering.
  • Performance-tuned the core SDK for 10k concurrent connections.
  • Built the engineering recruitment process and technical interviewing standards.
2020 2020

21re.de

Senior Engineer / Architect

Smart geo-data platform for real-estate valuation and market analytics

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  • Designed a full-stack valuation system with a rule-based DSL and an incremental re-computation engine.
  • Introduced XState/statechart-based modelling for the frontend: ~30% faster feature delivery and significant codebase reduction.
  • Built observability infrastructure (AWS OpenDistro / ELK) and owned infrastructure maintenance.
2020 2018

LiveIntent

Senior Engineer / Front-end Platform Owner

AdMarTech identity graph — 3M events per minute

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  • Owned high-throughput JS data-feeder services at 3M events/min and drove reliability engineering.
  • Architected a tag management application of Google Tag Manager class with sub-millisecond execution.
  • Full-stack delivery from React frontend to Scala backend.
2018 2016

Zalando

Lead Full-Stack Engineer

Transaction Core, Loyalty Platform, Checkout — serving 40M+ customers

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  • Architected and led Transaction Core, the order lifecycle backend serving the full Zalando customer base.
  • Led migration of the checkout monolith to microservices (Mosaic9); improved reliability and release cadence.
  • Built and led teams of 5–15 engineers; ran a 24/7 support organisation including the Black Friday war room.
  • Co-ordinated integration across 18+ teams (~100 developers) for the loyalty programme rollout.
  • Shipped real-time WebSocket services, secure payment flows, and multilingual order pages for 14M customers.
2016 2015

TomTom

Lead Engineer / Big Data R&D

Geospatial and traffic analytics — large-scale graph data at scale

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  • Designed a frontend visualisation platform for geospatial and traffic big data (React, TopoJSON/GeoJSON).
  • Implemented memory-efficient GPS probe path-reconstruction algorithms in Java — graph traversal at scale.
  • Prototyped traffic analytics across Python, C++, NodeJS and QGIS; owned binary big-data provider design.
2015 2014

Smava.de

Senior Web Developer

Consumer fintech — credit comparison and origination

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  • Owned a large-scale UX surface on Backbone and vanilla JS with measurable client-side performance gains.
  • Integrated and tuned an in-house Java CMS (JSP / Spring MVC) while shipping new features on a legacy stack.
2014 2013

lieferando.de

Technical Consultant / Senior Web Developer

Food-delivery marketplace — force.com and high-traffic web frontend

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  • Tuned initial-page performance by 60% on the discount/stamp-card feature.
  • Built a company-wide customer feedback and survey system on force.com.
  • Set up CI/CD delivery tooling for force.com.
2013 2012

Tquila

Technical Consultant

Salesforce consultancy — enterprise SaaS and hybrid cloud delivery

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  • Delivered GIPSY, a single-page deal-flow and cross-border scheduling planner extending Salesforce.
  • Architected Lab Forum, a Heroku-based reusable digital-forum framework for enterprise customers.
  • Built STORM, a force.com recruitment platform covering the full HR workflow.
2012 2011

EPAM (for Credit Suisse)

Senior / Lead Software Engineer

Equity derivatives and exotic-risk trading — distributed SOA with grid computation

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  • Performance-tuned WCF services on a large distributed SOA risk-management platform.
  • Second-line 24/7 production support for a live trading system.
2011 2010

SoftServe

Technical Lead / Architect

Web, SOA and SaaS security platforms — healthcare and public sector

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  • Led a security sub-system redesign for healthcare and public-sector platforms; migration to Windows Identity Foundation and ADFS 2.0.
  • Architected a personal-information management cloud product with rich object semantics across mixed media.
  • Owned team management, technical interviewing, competence audit and estimation across multiple streams.
2010 2008

Eleks Software

System / Cloud Solutions Architect

Scalable architecture and cloud migration across .NET / Azure

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  • Designed architecture for an MMOG platform serving 80,000+ concurrent users across 46 countries.
  • Architected an iris-recognition cloud service: 10× fewer maintenance pitstops, 4× better recognition latency.
  • Department-wide architecture auditor; led legacy cloud migration strategy and estimations of 10,000+ hours.
2008 2005

Eleks Software

Software Engineer / Lead

Shared web platform and component libraries for e-government delivery

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  • Designed a shared web core platform powering 15+ e-government projects, used in mission-critical work from 2006 onward.
  • Built a unified testing process that halved development time and cut full-regression cycles to under a day.
  • Shipped a reusable client-side controls library with a declarative configuration model, in pure JavaScript.
2005 2002

Freelance

Unix / Web Solutions Software Engineer

Independent delivery across web, desktop and Unix

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  • Web development, Win32 and Unix desktop development, and systems administration for SMB and education clients.
  • Delivered e-learning platforms, e-commerce systems, reputation systems, and small-business CMS/CRM.

Core expertise

Architecture & systems design
Distributed graph systems · columnar and embedded databases · Semantic Spacetime ontology · bipartite knowledge graphs · HyperGraphRAG · HNSW vector search · Reciprocal Rank Fusion · local-first architecture
Agentic & AI infrastructure
Agent memory pipelines · semantic extraction-consolidation · promise-graph cooperation · agentic world models · multi-agent trust registries · LLM orchestration
Identity & trust protocols
Self-sovereign identity · DID methods (did:web, did:webvh, did:webs) · KERI · verifiable credentials · GLEIF vLEI · agent reputation systems
Languages & runtimes
Rust · TypeScript · Python · Go · Kotlin · Scala · C++ · Zig · Clojure — language chosen to fit the problem

Education

Master of Special Computer Systems, with Honours
Lviv Polytechnic National University
2006–2008

Bachelor of System Engineering, with Honours
Lviv Polytechnic National University
2003–2006

Elsewhere

Open-source tools
Twenty-two books
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