Vadym Kazulkin was born and grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”.
Vadym is an AWS Serverless Hero and Head of Development at ip.labs based in Bonn, Germany. He has been in the tech industry for over 25 years. His current focus and interests include the design and implementation of highly scalable and available applications in the AWS Cloud, with a special passion for Serverless, Generative, and Agentic AI, as well as the optimization of Java applications (also utilizing Spring Boot, Micronaut, and Quarkus frameworks) on AWS Lambda.
Vadym is also the co-organizer of the Java User Group Bonn meetup, a frequent speaker at various national and international events, and a regular author of articles in different published and online magazines and on his online blog.
Vadym is husband to Nina and father of 3 wonderful children born in 2006, 2007, and 2017. His two older children (son and daughter) have already finished high school and continue their education. His younger son is very interested in math and software development and is learning Scratch and Python with his father.
Besides tech, Vadym enjoys watching football, biathlon, and darts, and learning foreign languages.