UPSTARS, Senior Software Engineer
July 2025 — present
- Developing an internal back-office product that manages and configures public-facing products.
- Stack: PHP, Go, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Helm
Roman Baranenko
Senior Software Engineer (PHP, Go)
Dnipro, Ukrainejungle.romabb8@gmail.comroma-bb8.github.iogithub.com/roma-bb8linkedin.com/in/roma-bb8-
Professional experience
GST VoIP Solution LTD, Team Lead (project work)
September 2024 — March 2025
- Led the move of media traffic processing to a distributed architecture.
- Stack: PHP, Python, Kamailio, Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ
Phonexa Holdings LLC, Software Developer
September 2021 — August 2024
- Developed an internal product for resource management, statistics collection, cost calculation and document workflow.
- Stack: PHP, Yii2, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, MongoDB
Education
Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
2024 — present
Software Engineering
Dnipropetrovsk College of Rocket and Space Engineering, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
2011 — 2015
Software Development, Junior Specialist qualification
Skills
- Programming languages
- PHP, Go
- Frameworks
- Symfony, Fiber, Yii2
- Databases
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
- Message brokers
- RabbitMQ, NATS
- Tools
- Git, Make, Packer, OpenTofu, Docker, Compose, Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab CI, GraphQL
- AI
- Claude Code, APM, OpenSpec
Languages
Ukrainian — native · English — Pre-Intermediate
Additional information
- Commercial software development since November 2015.
- 2023: webinar "A talk on AI agents and the evolution of agents" (recording, in Ukrainian).
- Since 2017: founder of the jungle bay open source community (github.com/jungle-bay).