# Anna Vakulchyk

> Principal Software Development Engineer at Zillow Group

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/annavakulchyk

Senior Software Engineer at Zillow

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Development Engineer @ Zillow
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Zillow
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco, California

### Lead Solutions Architect @ Guidance
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, California

### Senior Software Engineer @ BuyerQuest
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Cleveland, Ohio
• Develop and architect complex custom B2B and B2C applications based on Magento Enterprise Edition
• Develop RESTful web services based on Laravel and Symfony Frameworks
• Cover all code with functional and unit tests
• Optimize and improve search algorithms in applications using Solr and Elasticsearch
• Develop Java based web services deployed as AWS Lambda Function triggered by AWS events
• Optimize Magento performance via moving different entities, such as products, customers, orders, etc to MongoDB/Solr NoSQL collections/indexes to improve selection and insertion, integrated Redis and Varnish caching mechanism
• Develop and plan high loaded and scalable architecture solutions

Technology: PHP, Magento, Laravel, Symfony, Zend Framework, SOAP, REST, SVN, Git, jQuery,
JavaScript, CSS3, Sass, HTML5, Ajax, MemCache, XML, Apache, MySQL, Solr,
MongoDB, AWS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Nginx, Vagrant, Docker Container etc.

### Senior Software Engineer @ SaM Solutions
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Ukraine
• Developed and architected highly scaled B2C applications for different clients requirements
• Optimized search functionality of Magento Enterprise basic functionality in Solr
• Developed integrations with 3rd party systems
• Developed frontend part and theming in Magento
• Extended different type of checkout, payment and shipping methods, inventory
• Wrote Unit tests for different parts of application
• Develop RESTful web services based on Zend Framework
• Developed custom Magento Extensions 
• Designed database architecture and optimized SQL queries
• Integrated Varnish cache

Technology: PHP, Magento, Zend Framework, SOAP, REST, SVN, Git, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS3,
Sass, HTML5, Ajax, MemCache, XML, Apache, MySQL, Solr, MongoDB, Redis, etc

### Senior Software Engineer @ Daxx BV
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Ukraine
• Developed and architected highly scaled B2C applications for different clients requirements
• Developed frontend part and theming in Magento
• SEO optimization
• Integrated Solr search into application to improve performance and load on the system
• Developed custom Magento Extensions 
• System Administration
• Developed RESTful web services based on Zend Framework
• Extended different type of checkout, payment and shipping methods, inventory
• Designed database architecture and optimized SQL queries

Technology: PHP, Magento, Zend Framework, SOAP, REST, PHPUnit , SVN, Git, jQuery,
JavaScript, CSS3, Sass, HTML5, Ajax, MemCache, XML, Apache, MySQL, Solr, etc

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ciklum
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Ukraine
• Architected and developed e-commerce complex projects based on Zend Framework and Yii Framework
• Integrated Sphinx search into applications
• Developed online booking systems, integration with social system such as Facebook,
Google, Tweeter via API and SDK
• Developed web services based on SOAP and RESTful
• Integration systems and Navision synchronization
• Migrated existing e-commerce project into Magento platform

Technology: PHP, XML, HTML, CSS, SDK, API's, Varnish, MemCache, JavaScript, MySQL,
Magento, Zend Feamework, Yii Framework, custom frameworks, writing web services,
PhpUnit, XMPPHP, SVN, Solr, etc.

### Software Engineer @ Soft-Ukraine
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
• Developed and architected complex systems written on different frameworks and CMS systems, such as Zend Framework, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal (created new modules, new functionality, supported existing functionality, created new themes, layout, frontend and backend)
• SEO optimization
• Improved performance
• Server administration

Technology: PHP, XML, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, MySQL, Joomla, Drupal, Moodle,
Wordpress, SVN


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science (Information Technology)
National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/annavakulchyk
- Portfolio: http://annavakulchyk.blogspot.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-12