Lead Software Engineer

Hi, I’m Beniamin Levin.

Lead Software Engineer with 19+ years of experience building, scaling, and supporting enterprise telecom OSS/BSS, automotive, media, and distributed platforms. Deep hands-on expertise in Java / Spring, Golang, PHP, cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, AWS, OCI, Azure), and AI-driven engineering workflows (LLM APIs, NL-to-SQL copilots, AI defect triage).

Experience
19+ Years
Current Role
Lead Engineer
Programs Delivered
30+ Systems
Latency Tuning
30% – 88%
Beniamin Levin — Lead Software Engineer

Professional Experience

Track record of technical leadership, architectural design, team scaling, and delivering production systems for global telecom operators and enterprises.

Netcracker Technology

July 2015 – Present

Lead Software Engineer

Enterprise Telecom OSS/BSS Platform Architecture & Delivery

Java · Spring Boot · Kubernetes · Microservices · AI Workflows
  • 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 Order Capture by ~75% over two years through root-cause remediation, rigorous code reviews, and automated CI validation.
  • Reduced average defect-triage time from ~2 hours to ~30 minutes by operationalising a Claude Sonnet-based engineering assistant with repository context and project-specific engineering rules.
  • Scaled AI-assisted development across Java/Spring and Angular teams, introducing repository-aware workflows for implementation, refactoring, and test generation — cutting unit-test creation time by ~40%.
  • Served as hands-on technical owner across multi-release OSS/BSS delivery for 30+ telecom customer programs (including Telenet, Telefónica/O2, GCI Alaska, GTD Chile, and Rakuten).
  • Led a distributed engineering team of up to 11 developers while remaining hands-on, delivering concurrent customer releases and L3 production support.
  • Built a 5-engineer Pune engineering pod in three months from 70+ technical interviews, leading on-site architecture mentoring and knowledge transfer.

Symphony Teleca Corporation

February 2011 – July 2015

Principal Software Engineer

Automotive Infotainment, Mobile Platforms & Core Messaging

Java · Android · C/C++ · Telematics
  • Samsung Messaging (Suwon, South Korea): Selected for 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 and high-responsiveness weather/alert widgets optimized for low power consumption.

Onlyoffice (TeamLab)

November 2009 – January 2011

Software Engineer

Enterprise Collaboration & Document Management Platform

.NET · NHibernate · JavaScript · jQuery · CSS · LDAP
  • Designed and implemented operational subsystems for TeamLab (now Onlyoffice), an enterprise collaboration and document management platform using .NET, NHibernate, and SQL databases.
  • Delivered modules for bookmark systems, corporate planners, project templates, real-time analytics aggregators, and automated bulk LDAP/employee data ingestion pipelines with JavaScript, jQuery, and custom CSS UI.

MERA NN

November 2006 – November 2009

Software Engineer

Telecom Communication Infrastructure Management

Java · Telecom OA&M · High Availability · Testing
  • Built high-availability web applications for operating, remotely administering, and monitoring Nortel ICP communication infrastructure.
  • Authored architecture specifications and deployment plans; maintained comprehensive test suites with JUnit and Cobertura.

Freelance & Personal Projects

Independent engineering delivery, AI copilot architectures, commercial platforms, and production systems.

Sure Communications

2019 – Present

Freelance Software Engineer

Telecom & Web Integration Solutions for Business Clients

PHP · MySQL · AI / Grok API · OpenAI · Chart.js · Shopify
  • Delivered end-to-end PHP/MySQL/JavaScript web applications, customer portals, CRM integrations, and back-office tooling for telecom and business clients, including Shopify e-commerce integrations, Memento platform delivery, and the flagship dealer/consumer sales platform for Morgan Motor Company (morgan-sales.com).
  • Led technical architecture, backend automation, and performance tuning across enterprise platforms (crm.sur.co.uk, sur.co.uk, altis.co.uk, melodycare.co.uk); built file-rendering services, cron task runners, email-to-comment synchronisation, and database tuning.
  • Engineered an OpenAI ChatGPT-powered email-reply generator (context-aware drafting with greeting personalisation, thread trimming, and chase-email detection) and an AI ticket comment generator drafting support responses from full conversation history.
  • Architected and built "SurAI": an embedded natural-language business-intelligence copilot in the CRM that converts plain-English questions into schema-aware SQL via the Grok (xAI) API. Injects metadata to prevent hallucinated fields, enforces read-only connections & SELECT-only guardrails, and renders results into interactive tables and Chart.js visualisations (bar/pie/line).

ikite.fyi

2023 – Present

Production System Owner

Israeli Mediterranean Wind & Meteorological Monitoring Platform

Golang · MySQL · OCI · Systemd · Docker · ApexCharts · Telegram API
  • Designed, built, and operate a production wind-monitoring platform hosted on Oracle Cloud (OCI) at ikite.fyi, delivering live multi-station wind readings, time-series graphs, beach cameras, and admin controls.
  • Originally built in PHP (2023) and completely rewritten in Golang in 2026 for sub-millisecond API responses and low memory footprint (~15 MB).
  • Implemented scheduled background collectors polling Windguru, IMS Envista API, and local Israeli station feeds with MySQL persistence and real-time Telegram threshold alerts.
  • Engineered automated daily forecast ingestion pipelines: openWRF PDF parsing, OpenSkiron 4 km GRIB, Open-Meteo models, and Hebrew AI forecast report ingestion with automatic English translation.

Business FM — Custom CRM

2012 – 2015

Full-Stack Architect & Developer

Custom Media & Radio Sales CRM

PHP · MySQL · AWS (EC2/RDS) · Microsoft Azure
  • Designed, built, deployed, and maintained a bespoke PHP/MySQL CRM for client, contact, and media sales-workflow management as the sole developer.
  • Initially deployed on Microsoft Azure before migrating production infrastructure to AWS EC2/RDS for improved cost optimization and operational control.

Core Competencies & Technical Skills

Comprehensive technology stack across 19+ years of engineering leadership, enterprise platforms, cloud architecture, and modern AI engineering.

Backend & Languages

Java Spring Boot 3 Spring Framework 6 Spring Cloud Quarkus Golang (Go) .NET / C# NHibernate PHP Node.js REST & GraphQL Microservices Architecture

AI & Intelligent Workflows

Claude Sonnet & Cursor OpenAI GPT APIs Grok (xAI) API Natural-Language-to-SQL LLM Prompt Engineering AI Defect Triage Context-Aware AI Drafting Repository Code Analysis

Messaging & Data Systems

Kafka RabbitMQ Redis Elasticsearch PostgreSQL MySQL Cassandra SQL & NoSQL Time-Series Telemetry

Cloud & DevOps

Docker Kubernetes OpenShift Oracle Cloud (OCI) AWS (EC2, RDS) Microsoft Azure GCP Linux Systems CI/CD Pipelines Prometheus & Grafana

Frontend, Mobile & Analytics

Angular TypeScript JavaScript (ES6+) Chart.js ApexCharts HTML5 & CSS3 Bootstrap Android jQuery

Leadership & Delivery

Engineering Leadership Distributed Team Mentoring System Design Agile / Scrum & Sprint Planning Story Mapping L3 Production Support Technical Hiring & Pod Building

Education & Academic Training

Academic foundation, corporate training, and continuous professional development.

Lobachevsky State University

2003 – 2008

Graduated with Honours

Master's Degree, Faculty of Computational Mathematics & Cybernetics

Advanced academic curriculum covering computational mathematics, algorithms, distributed systems, cybernetics, and software engineering.

Nortel Networks

March 2009 – June 2009

New York, USA

Advanced Corporate Training: Common OA&M Architecture

Specialized corporate engineering training in telecom carrier operations, administration, maintenance, and high-reliability software architecture.

Professional & Corporate Trainings

Completed corporate, engineering, leadership, and security training programs.

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Discount Configuration Overview
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Event Definition Overview
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Information Security Awareness
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NC People Development/Assessment Process & Mini-Accreditation Process
NC Training Center (CDC) Overview
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NetCracker Database
NetCracker Environment
NetCracker Framework
NetCracker NCDO Component (Basic)
NetCracker: Welcome on Board
Netcracker End-to-End Business Overview (E2E)
Netcracker Product and Services Portfolio Business Overview
On-site Rules of Conduct
Post-Production Performance Support Best Practices
Price Plan Overview
Privacy and Security Awareness
Product Configuration Overview
RBM Overview
Rate Plan Overview
Rating Operations
Rules of Conduct in India (CIS)
Secure Development Best Practices
Situational Management (Leadership)
Solution Delivery Implementation Methodology and Company Processes
Spring Framework (Basic)
TOMS Overview
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