BENIAMIN LEVIN
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Lead Software Engineer with 19+ years of experience building, scaling, and supporting enterprise telecom OSS/BSS, automotive, and mobile platforms.
Deep hands-on expertise in Java/Spring engineering, system design, distributed delivery, Kubernetes/OpenShift-based cloud platforms, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Introduced AI-based development and defect triage, cutting unit-test creation time by ~40% and average defect-triage time from ~2 hours to ~30 minutes.
Delivered measurable engineering and business impact: reduced incoming defect volume for the Order Capture component by ~75% over two years, cut page-load and response times by 30–88%, including improvements from ~4s to ~0.5s, and resolved 20 accessibility-related defects for Charter Communications. Established a Pune engineering pod by running 70+ interviews over three months, hiring 5 engineers, and leading on-site architecture mentoring.
Led distributed engineering teams of up to 11 developers across European development centres and India. Delivered production systems for major telecom operators including Telenet, Telefónica/O2, GCI Alaska, GTD Chile, and Rakuten.
CORE COMPETENCIES & TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Technical Leadership & Delivery: Engineering Leadership, System Design, Distributed Systems, Team Mentoring, Agile/Scrum, Sprint Planning, Story Mapping, L3 Production Support
- Backend: Java, Spring Boot 3, Spring Framework 6, Spring Cloud, Quarkus, Node.js, REST, GraphQL, Microservices, Golang
- Messaging & Data: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL, NoSQL
- Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GCP, AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, Linux, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, monitoring, logging, telemetry
- Frontend & Mobile: Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, Android
- AI-Assisted Engineering: Cursor, Claude Sonnet, OpenAI GPT, Grok (xAI) API, natural-language-to-SQL, LLM prompt engineering, AI-assisted defect triage, repository-aware code analysis
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Netcracker Technology — Israel / Russia July 2015 – Present Lead Software Engineer
- Reduced response times by 30–88% across critical enterprise order-entry workflows, including cutting key flows from ~4s to ~0.5s, by eliminating redundant service calls, introducing targeted caching, and tuning SQL and application hot paths.
- Led technical design, feature development, and scaling across enterprise telecom OSS/BSS platforms, spanning order entry, CPQ, product catalog, validation, and Kubernetes-based delivery streams.
- Reduced incoming defect volume for the Order Capture component by ~75% over two years by identifying and eliminating recurring root causes, strengthening code reviews and CI validation, and improving engineering quality before changes reached customer environments.
- Reduced average defect-triage time from ~2 hours to ~30 minutes by operationalising a Claude Sonnet-based engineering assistant with repository and documentation access, project-specific engineering rules, and automated root-cause and fix suggestions.
- Scaled AI-assisted development across Java/Spring and Angular teams, introducing repository-aware workflows for implementation, refactoring, code analysis, and test generation and cutting unit-test creation time by ~40%.
- Served as a hands-on technical owner across multi-release OSS/BSS delivery for 30+ telecom customer programs, resolving architecture, integration, performance, security, backport, and production-release issues across enterprise order-entry platforms.
- Led a distributed engineering team of up to 11 developers across Europe and India while remaining hands-on, delivering concurrent customer releases and Level-3 production support while owning technical quality and critical incident resolution.
- Built a 5-engineer Pune engineering pod in three months, selecting the team from 70+ interviews and accelerating technical ramp-up through two multi-month on-site architecture and knowledge-transfer engagements.
Symphony Teleca Corporation — Russia / South Korea February 2011 – July 2015 Principal Software Engineer
- Samsung Messaging — Suwon, South Korea: Selected for an on-site engagement at Samsung HQ to optimise and customise core messaging infrastructure for flagship Android devices.
- SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Platform: Engineered the Java server-side architecture and Android client for a vehicle infotainment platform demonstrated live at CES 2012.
- Android UI & Widgets — Nokia, Savelli: Developed low-level Android UI adaptations replicating native Nokia experiences, and built weather/alert widgets focused on responsiveness, asynchronous loading, and low power consumption.
Onlyoffice — Russia November 2009 – January 2011 Software Engineer
- Designed and implemented operational subsystems for TeamLab, now Onlyoffice, an enterprise collaboration and document management platform.
- Delivered modules for bookmark systems, corporate planners/organisers, project templates, real-time analytics aggregators, and automated bulk LDAP/employee data ingestion pipelines.
MERA NN — Russia / USA November 2006 – November 2009 Software Engineer
- Built high-availability web applications for operating, remotely administering, and monitoring Nortel ICP communication infrastructure.
- Authored architecture specifications and deployment plans; maintained JUnit/Cobertura test suites to raise coverage and reliability.
EDUCATION & ACADEMIC TRAINING
N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod 2003 – 2008 Master's, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics — Graduated with Honours
Nortel Networks (New York, USA) March 2009 – June 2009 Advanced Corporate Training: Common OA&M Architecture
Selected Professional Development
- Engineering leadership, delegation, and multi-site team management
- Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
- Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
- Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Cassandra
- Angular architecture and state management
LANGUAGES
- English: Full professional working proficiency — 19+ years of daily use in international engineering teams, technical documentation, code review, and customer-facing delivery; includes on-site work in India and South Korea, plus corporate training in New York, USA.
- Hebrew: Upper-intermediate — professional working proficiency
- Russian: Native