Oleg Merkulov

• Managing an offshore team.

• Introduced spec-driven GenAI development to the team via GitHub Copilot & Kiro.

• Technical lead of an external distributed cloud-first Web SPA using React/TypeScript on frontend and Dapr Actors/GraphQL/ASP.NET Core/.NET 10/C# on backend. The app is hosted in AWS EKS cluster (Kubernetes), with metrics via Grafana and logging through OpenSearch.

• Developed a client-facing desktop WPF app using WebView2 to host the SPA. The application is packaged using MSIX and deployed to AWS S3. Implemented an NPM library to allow hosted React client to manage the application's windows and show desktop notifications.

• Introduced Agentic AI (Claude Sonnet & GitHub Copilot/Amazon Q/Kiro) to the team by integrating agentic instructions for the codebase and miscellaneous MCP Servers for analyzing logs, querying databases, and managing Kubernetes deployments.

• Introduced Apsire orchestration to simplify local development and testing.

• Architected a UI Automation test harness using Playwright, which is powered by Markdown instructions for automatic test generation by Claude Sonnet LLM.

• Designed and developed miscellaneous features in external client-facing desktop application while leveraging .NET 9/C#/WPF/DevExpress/RX/Protobuf.

• Developed a full-stack application utilizing gRPC Web on the server and Blazor WebAssembly on the client to migrate some desktop client functionality to the web.

• Individually designed an external mobile application firm by using Xamarin Forms. Leveraged AppCenter to deploy the app to Apple and Google stores. Designed the mobile backend by utilizing ASP.NET Core Web API & Docker/Kubernetes

• Architected a desktop UI Automation harness leveraging Gherkin user stories and WinAppDriver/Appium/Specflow/.NET5/Docker & Kubernetes for deployment.

• Developed miscellaneous .NET Core Nuget SDK libraries

• • Primary responsibilities included design, development, and support of electronic trading applications.

• • Designed and developed a modern application (WPF/Prism/MEF/Infragistics 15/RX) to replace the existing WinForms application for equity derivatives desk to trade securities.

• • Leveraged the customization and performance of Infragistics controls (grid, layout controls, workspace persistence, and printing) in redesigned WPF trading application.

• • Improved the application business flow by interacting with the traders and implementing their requests.

• • Streamlined the existing build and deployment process by reducing the scripting part and making the one-click deployment on TeamCity.

• • Created a UI automation test framework based on White/SpecFlow and driven by user stories written in Gherkin.

• • Designed and developed an incident report support web page leveraging NodeJS/AngularJS/Bootstrap/TypeScript

• • Primary responsibilities included design and development of client and server tools.

• • Individually designed and developed an application (WPF/Prism/MEF/DevExpress 2012) for equity derivatives trades to run risk scenarios.

• • Introduced .NET Framework 4.0 and MEF to existing applications to improve performance (using Parallel) and modularity (MEF).

• • Developed an internal site for viewing cached market data from Oracle Coherence using ASP.NET 4.0 and DevExpress.

• • Developed an internal site for controlling application version level entitlements using ASP.NET MVC 3 and DevExpress.

• • Developed a set of WPF utility applications for support purposes.

• • Migrated a suite of applications to internal Windows 7 implementation including driver migration and standardized packaging.

• • Leveraged the customization and performance of DevExpress controls (grid, layout controls, printing etc.) in WPF, Win Forms, and ASP.NET applications.