# Vitalii Honcharuk

> Sr. Principal Engineer & VP of Engineering · Founder & Fractional CTO, Estate Deals Club · AI-First Architecture

Location: Summerville, South Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vitaliihoncharuk

BOOTSTRAP SCALE ARCHITECT: Transforming Constrained Teams Into Revenue Engines

I achieve 10x outcomes through systematic excellence, AI/ML-powered operations, and founder economics—multiplying productivity, not headcount.

Track Record: Doubled revenue at 2 companies. Led $10M+ digital transformations & platform engineering initiatives. Split 8 monolithic systems across fintech, cybersecurity, healthcare, telecom.

PLATFORM TRANSFORMATION & ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
$10M+ projects | 40% cost optimization | $1M monthly cloud savings (FinOps) | 99.95% uptime for 200MM+ accounts | 10x performance | 60% deployment efficiency (DORA metrics) | $2M+ vendor consolidation | $1.5M+ technologies/licenses savings | 70% contract-to-hire optimization

REVENUE DOUBLING & TEAM SCALING
Cynet Security: 10-person team building → $13.5M revenue, reduced churn | Monster Lead: Architecture upgrade → 2x revenue ($19M), 10x customer base

EXPONENTIAL PERFORMANCE  
OVO: Monolith split, 5x capacity, 600x query improvements | Telenor M&A: 8-country system, 8x infrastructure cost cut, $110B revenue support

AI/ML OPERATIONS & INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION
Pioneered AI-powered SDLC: LLM-assisted code/docs/tests generation, multi-agent systems (ML models for security, compliance, performance analysis), predictive analytics for incident response, NLP-driven documentation. MLOps pipeline automation. Enhanced DevEx: 70% customer value time vs. typical 20%. Zero critical compliance findings (PCI/SOC2/KYC).

EXECUTIVE SCOPE & BOARD PARTNERSHIP

P&L management: $10M+, multi-year budgets | Cross-Functional: Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Compliance, Operations | Scale: 200MM+ ecosystems, Fortune 500 partnerships | M&A: 7-company technical integration
Vision: Bootstrap Resourcefulness | Full-Stack Autonomy | Basis-Point Optimization | AI-Driven Decision-Making | Data-Driven Hiring

SPECIALIZATION

Industry: Fintech/BaaS, Cybersecurity SaaS, High-Compliance, Healthcare, Telecom
Scale: Startups (10 engineers) → Enterprise (800+ influenced)  
Technical: C# .NET/Cloud-Native, Microservices at scale/K8s, Azure/AWS, Event-Driven, AI/ML Integration, LLMs, Machine Learning Models, Intelligent Automation
Vision: As AI/ML transforms industries, I position companies to lead next-gen intelligent development and autonomous operations.

"Sets impossible goals, then systematically removes obstacles."

Recognition: Harvard Square Leadership Excellence | C# Corner MVP | MS Stage Speaker

OPEN TO: Chief Technology Officer (CTO) | VP Engineering | Technical Co-Founder
📧 vitalii.honch@gmail.com

## Work Experience
### VPE & Sr. Principal Software Engineer @ Green Dot Corporation
Jan 2022 – Present | California, United States
Enhancing a $1B+ Revenue Platform | 200MM+ Accounts | Fortune 500 Partnerships

• INITIATIVES & $10M+ TRANSFORMATIONS
Led cloud-native migration (Azure/AWS K8s), .NET 8 upgrade (500% performance), container orchestration (60% deployment efficiency), vendor consolidation. Results: 50% stability improvement, 40% cost reduction, $1M monthly cloud savings, 99.95% uptime for 10MM+ active accounts (200MM+ ecosystem), 3x faster partner onboarding. Next-gen BaaS foundation.

• AI-FIRST ENGINEERING OPERATIONS
Pioneered AI code/docs/tests generation, multi-agent PR reviews (security, compliance, performance), predictive incident response, automated PCI/SOC2/KYC compliance. Results: 40% reduced engineering labor per feature, 70% customer value time (vs. industry 20%), zero critical audit findings, enhanced DevEx. Strategic Impact: 2x feature velocity without proportional headcount.

• VENDOR OPTIMIZATION & TALENT ENGINE
Consolidated vendor ecosystem with scorecards (technical + cultural fit), 3-person contractor pod placement, systematic onboarding (full-stack autonomy in 60 days). Results: $2M+ annual savings, 70% contract-to-hire (vs. 30-40% industry), minimal knowledge loss. Enabled 60+ engineer growth with founder-economics discipline.

• CROSS-FUNCTIONAL STRATEGY & FINOPS
Partnered with Executive Peers, Product, Sales, Finance, Compliance on technology-business alignment. Drove multi-tenancy, white-labeling, compliance automation. Enhanced SDLC—50% faster time-to-market, elite DORA metrics. Cloud modernization: $1.5M+ annual savings, 10x traffic scalability, 40% infrastructure cost reduction, MTTR improvements.

• ENGINEERING CULTURE TRANSFORMATION & TEAM SCALING
Multiple time zones distributed teams. Established development culture, guidelines, interviewing/onboarding. Identified and resolved 40+ friction points blocking team velocity and employee retention. Results: Scaling 10 to 100+ engineers, reduced onboarding 50%, influenced 400+ engineers.

### Founder & Fractional CTO @ Estate Deals Club
Jan 2019 – Present | Texas, United States
Founded Estate Deals Club — architecting the platform from zero-to-one as sole technical founder. Built AI-first platform with multi-agent systems for data acquisition, content generation, and market intelligence. Cloud-native architecture with 99.9% uptime, fully automated CI/CD and infrastructure. Drove product vision, technical architecture, and go-to-market strategy for real estate analytics platform.

### Principal Software Engineer & VP of Engineering @ Cynet Security
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Tel Aviv, Israel & NY, NY USA
• Built and led a ninjas team of 10 Principal Software Engineers, doubling the product's revenue to $13.5M.
• Reduce customer churn by refining the system's architecture, stability, scalability, performance, security.
• Identified and rectified 40+ issues causing employee attrition, enhancing the work env for 50 engineers.
• Fostered a healthy development culture, guidelines, docs, interviewing and onboarding processes.
• Introduced a local, production-like Kubernetes environment, tripling development efficiency and 5x quality.
• Created a proprietary microservice template, now a standard for new microservices, which decreased development time, integration and support effort, reduced bugs, and accelerated go-to-market speed.

Technologies: K8s, Docker, Minikube, Asp .Net Core, C#, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Nuget templates, WebApi, WebServices, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Git, VMware ESX, HeidiSQL.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Monster Lead Group
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Upgraded microservices architecture, guidelines, processes, best practices which 2x revenue to $19M
• Modernized and redesigned the platform to support rebranding and a 10x increase in the customer base
• Decreased effort, reduced bugs, improved go-to-market speed by implementing a microservice template
• Upleveled engineers, and processes, delivered a big part of system upgrades to meet the hard deadline
• Implemented a business-critical feature-rich campaign setup engine in Angular 9 for the ultimate user exp.
• Upgraded AWS IaaC which 3x decreased infrastructure maintenance time and increased stability

Used tech: AWS CDK, Cloud Formation, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, AWS RDS Aurora, SQL Server, C#, TS, Asp.Net core, Angular, Jira.

### Lead Full Stack Engineer @ OVO
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Split the monolithic system into microservices and serverless Azure functions to handle 5x customers
• Led a team of 6 highly experienced engineers, and successfully went through multiple releases
• Improved DB queries up to 600x, reduced code up to 6x while increasing clarity, increased maintainability
• Identified and fixed 40+ problems blocking employees' potential, organized and influenced 30+ engineers
• Actively drove initiatives to improve business, codebase, architecture, and team efficiency
• Modernized architecture, culture, code of conduct, guidelines, interviewing, and onboarding processes

Used tech: Serverless, Azure Functions, WebForms, Docker, C#, JavaScript, Asp.Net core, MS SQL, MongoDB, App Insights, Fiddler, Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub.

### Lead Full Stack .Net Engineer @ Verizon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Irving, Texas, United States
• Personally developed 4 critical microservices with excellent efficiency and zero production issues
• Developed a pipeline with microservices to perform media content processing, transformation, encoding and configurations of assets provided by many studios for video-on-demand distribution
• Introduced the architecture, code of conduct and guidelines, exceeding role expectations
• Successfully integrated 4 media processing systems (OLES, PKES, Telestream, CTS)
• Decreased tracing effort 2-5x by introducing an extendable cross-microservices logging pattern
• Proved Full-Stack flexibility by switching to Angular from C# and SQL due to urgent client needs

Used tech: Microservices, Serverless, Azure Functions, C#, JavaScript, Typescript, Asp.Net Core, Angular 8, MS SQL, Linux, Splunk, Fiddler, WinSCP, PuTTy.

### Senior Full Stack .Net Engineer @ WCG PFS Clinical
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Inspired the architecture, code of conduct, guidelines and interviewing processes
• Built a new portal that handles clinical trial initiations, preparation and consideration by committees
• Migrated 4 multi-terabyte obsolete databases to a new system with a completely different data schema
• Developed an efficient application that passed security, stress testing, and medical certification

Used tech: C#, JavaScript, Typescript, Asp.Net Core, Angular 4-6, Google Maps JS API, MS SQL, PowerShell, Azure Service Fabric SDK, Azure Data Factory, Fiddler.

### Senior Full Stack .Net Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
• Optimized and upgraded 3 top used MS Dynamics CRM plugins and performed CRM separation
• Found and resolved dozens of bugs, improved user experience and consistency
• Up-leveled team skills, optimized efficiency, processes, cross-team collaboration, inspired proactiveness
• Decreased the amount of code 1.2 - 2x for components while significantly increasing code clarity

Used tech: MS Dynamics CRM, C# .Net Core, JS, MS SQL, PowerShell, Hyper-V, Fiddler, CRM SDK

### Software Engineer @ Telenor
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
• Developed and implemented a customizable system for conducting a telecom business in 8 countries after takeovers of 7 companies to cut 8x infrastructure costs and bring US$110 billion in revenue
• Developed a new solution that decreased 5x effort for content editors and eliminates human errors
• Developed E2E API tests to run publicly on dependent unstable APIs for visibility to decrease 2x development and testing effort for 65 team members.
• Led team development activities, taught programming for 3 manual QAs to become automated QAs

Used tech: C# ASP.Net MVC, EpiServer CMS, JS, SQL Server

### .Net + Angular developer @ Ukad-Group
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Ukraine
• Developed 3 SaaS solutions for various clients across the EU, contributed to QA and improvements

Used tech: C# ASP.Net MVC, Umbraco CMS, AngularJS, SQL Server, My SQL, MongoDB

### CTO @ NPP Avior
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Kharkiv, Ukraine
Spearheaded the budget-neutral automation of internal workflows, enhancing process efficiency by 400%. This strategic initiative significantly uplifted employees satisfaction and catalyzed revenue and innovations.


## Education
### Master's degree in Accounting and Audit
Simon  Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vitalii-hon
- Website: https://estatedeals.club

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Last updated: 2026-03-22