**BENIAMIN LEVIN**

benlevin0213@gmail.com

[linkedin.com/in/beniaminlevin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/beniaminlevin/)

**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