Vladimir Afanasev
Senior Lead Software Engineer @ Barclays Investment Bank
About
Lead Data Engineer and Database Architect with 10+ years of experience. I have a focus on: • Intersection of data engineering, team leadership, and business strategy • Adept at leading cross-functional team, mentoring talent, and collaborating with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable data strategies. • Proven track record in performance optimization, metadata architecture, and end-to-end ownership of data infrastructure, from modeling to governance • I’m passionate about LLM, and GenAI techniques for predictive insights. Disclaimer: All content and opinions shared on this profile are my personal views and do not represent the views of my employer or any affiliated organizations. Skills & Tools People management | Team Leadership | Database Design | Business Development | Performance optimization | Data Engineering | SQL Server | Oracle | PostgreSQL | ETL | Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) | Teamcity | Jira | GIT | Confluence | Machine Learning | GenAI | Python | Jupyter | Pandas | Numpy | Airflow | Mage | Docker | Kubernetes | Russian (native) | English (fluent) | Czech (basic)
Czechia
Prague
Financial Services
Terraform, Mage, Google BigQuery, DBT, Google Looker Studio, Docker, Pandas (Software), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Docker Products, Performance optimization, MSSQL, MS SQL, People Management, Team Leadership, PL/SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), Business Development, Testing
Experience

Senior Lead Software Engineer
Prague, Czech Republic
Leading 7 DB specialists on Credit Risk project: • Improve input validation controls by ~50% • Set up performance controls and reduce DB issues by ~30% • Speed up user bathes, procedures, housekeeping by ~20%. • Migration to MS SQL 2017, 2022. Additional responsibilities: • People management. Supervision of 7 Middle/Senior DB team members. Created personalized goals, book of work, Q1:1, YE reviews. Motivated team. Knowledge sharing. Delegation. Values and Mindset • Created SQL strategy to support business, DB metadata framework architecture. Decided on tasks distribution. Worked with other teams (DevOps, Release Management, BA). • Managed 2 GitHub repositories. Developing production standard code within the team’s agile development process (code review, monitoring metrics, finding vulnerabilities, brainstorming) • Interviewed 10+ and hired 4 DB employees

Senior Database Developer at Barclays
Prague, Czechia
I worked on DB refactoring on Credit Risk project: • Created basic performance controls, introduced Graphana for analytics and monitoring. • Designed and conducted DB metadata framework unification, tagging functionality for business users. • Apply columnstore approach to reduce the storage (~200%) and speed up the queries (~50%) • Interviewed 5+ and hired 2 DB employees

SQL developer
Moscow, Russische Föderation
Working in small team as consulting SQL engineer. My everyday activites include developing SQL pocedures and scripts, working with .NET Projects I participated: - Tax reporting. Developing business applications on T-SQL, C# - Financial reporting. Developing, supporting ant testing SQL code on T-SQL, PL/SQL
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