Vladimir Afanasev

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)

Country

Czechia

City

Prague

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

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

Barclays Investment Bank

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Barclays Investment Bank

LinkedIn
2022-2 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

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

Barclays Investment Bank

Senior Database Developer at Barclays

Barclays Investment Bank

LinkedIn
2019-7 - 2022-2 · 2 yrs 8 mos

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

EPAM Systems

Software Engineer

EPAM Systems

LinkedIn
2017-11 - 2019-7 · 1 yr 9 mos

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

I worked in DB team on Credit Risk project: • Refactored sub-optimal queries, speed up procedures ~20% • Developed 15+ upstreams/downstreams for Credit Risk batch calculation.

Quadrium

SQL developer

Quadrium

LinkedIn
2015-2 - 2017-6 · 2 yrs 5 mos

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

GlowByte Consulting

Consultant

GlowByte Consulting

LinkedIn
2012-10 - 2014-10 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Moscow, Russische Föderation

Education

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

LinkedIn

Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

2007 - 2012 · 5 yrs

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