Valentyn Shybanov

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Senior Software Engineer / TLM — Google Cloud infrastructure & Console, AI agent systems, developer experience
Bay Area, California, USA 🇺🇸
+1(669)-649-8893
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About myself
  • Senior software engineer and tech lead focused on cloud infrastructure and developer productivity: building resilient, reliable systems and automations that reduce delivery time from weeks to hours, with an emphasis on large-scale distributed architectures.
  • Current focus: Cognitive/Embodied AI and agentic systems — tool-using agents in continuous cognitive loops, self-learning behaviors, and dynamic role switching capable of reasoning over complex operational scenarios (Vertex AI / Gemini).
  • Experienced in leading engineering teams, fostering strong technical cultures, reducing delivery times, and mentoring developers to build scalable, high-performance distributed systems.
  • Former Google Developer Expert (Cloud and Web). Public speaker and workshop/hackathon organizer aiming to share knowledge and empower the broader engineering community.
  • Public speaking since 2008; speaker at dozens of conferences including JEEConf, UAWeb, Google DevFest, and BuildStuff (and helped organize some of them).

Skillset AI/LLM: Cognitive/Embodied AI systems, Vertex AI (Gemini), tool-using agents, embeddings, vector search/RAG, evaluation & monitoring Cloud/Infra: Platform engineering, Reliability, Resilience, Compliance, Scalability, Automation & Developer Productivity, distributed systems, GCP, AWS, Azure Stacks: Python, Go, Java, .NET, C++, TypeScript/JS Web: Angular, React, Lit

Publications
Technical publication Jan 2026
TDCommons

Published: January 28, 2026. Framework for Situated Agents Using Tool-Based Perception and Interaction in a Continuous Cognitive Loop

Work experience
Senior Software Engineer/TLM Jan 2019 - Present
Google
  • Google Cloud Platform: improved Google Cloud Console and core infrastructure, increasing scalability and reliability.
  • Implemented automations that reduced engineering time from weeks to hours.
  • Designed and implemented a cognitive AI system with an agentic-first approach, self-learning, and dynamic role switching.
Software Development Engineer Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Amazon
  • Alexa Natural Language Understanding (NLU): improved reliability and latency of core components of the Amazon Alexa service.
  • Focused on scalability and performance improvements in production services.
Web Team Leader Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
MyHeritage
  • Improved the front-end architecture and established a new front-end engineering team in Kyiv, leading hiring and onboarding.
Solution Architect, Head of Ukrainian branch Feb 2010 - Feb 2017
Twinfield (Wolters Kluwer)
  • Initially managed the Ukrainian branch as Regional Director, overseeing developers and shaping product requirements.
  • Transitioned to Software/Solution Architect, architecting the migration of the core application to the cloud.
  • Designed and implemented backend and frontend systems, establishing a unified development process and training engineers.
  • Technologies: ASP.NET MVC, C#, AngularJS, CQRS/ES, MS SQL, RabbitMQ.
Earlier Software Engineering Roles May 1998 - Apr 2009
Various Companies
  • Held multiple software engineering and technical leadership roles focused on full-stack web development, billing systems, and high-performance databases.
  • Technologies: C++, Java, Delphi, PHP, Perl, MySQL.
Education
Mathematics, Master of Science 1997 - 2003
NTUU "KPI"

National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyyiv Polytechnic Institute' (NTUU "KPI").

Gained Master of Science degree in Mathematics (Probability theory).