Vadym Chekrii

Vadym Chekrii is the current Head of Engineering for Core Banking at Upvest. Vadym has held this position since October of 2020. Prior to their current role, Vadym Chekrii was a Principal Engineer at TransferWise from May 2015 to October 2020. In this role, they helped core teams to plan and build long-term architecture with a focus on scalability, observability, and business requirements. Vadym also supported them in adopting a long-term company-wide technical roadmap and planned concrete implementation steps with clear milestones.

Before their time at TransferWise, Vadym Chekrii was a Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead at Ciklum from March 2014 to May 2015. In this role, they worked on an innovative payment solution and took part in the full lifecycle of software feature development as well as the optimization of development testing approaches. Vadym also took part in application architecture reorganization.

Vadym Chekrii’s career began at Luxoft where they worked as a software engineer from March 2013 to March 2014. During their time at Luxoft, they worked on a financial project and took part in the development of all layers of the application. Vadym used GWT/GXT for the user interface and made extensive use of Spring, Hibernate, and plain JDBC. Oracle was used on the database layer. Vadym Chekrii used a continuous integration approach and worked

Vadym Chekrii has a Master's degree in Information Technology from the Institute of Telecommunication.

Vadym Chekrii reports to Juha Ristolainen, CTO. Some of their coworkers include Florian Thiel - Head of Engineering Tooling & Auxiliary Services, Jarkko Heinonen - Head of Engineering, Data and Reporting, and Geoffrey Teale - Head of Engineering (Developer eXperience).