Journey.
2007
Law & the Red Cross
Started as a legal specialist and youth program coordinator at the Belarus Red Cross in Grodno.
2009
Off to sea, then the US
Moved to the US working aboard Carnival Ecstasy, then nearly a decade in Miami hospitality.
2018
Switching to tech
Studied QA at Portnov and Linux administration at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension.
2019
First tech role
QA engineer at Metadata — Selenium automation in CI/CD and SOC2 work.
2020
Production at scale
Joined Couchbase supporting 24×7 distributed systems for Fortune 500 customers.
2022
Platform engineering
Senior engineer at Magic Leap owning developer platforms on GCP and Kubernetes.