Olga Holodaieva.

Twenty years in code — most of it spent building, evolving and keeping alive the systems that quietly run companies. I studied applied mathematics in Kharkiv, then spent the next two decades in Kyiv as the responsable for IT systems, databases and networks. The title changed over time, but the work meant the same thing: be whatever the team needs that week — developer, sysadmin, DBA, sometimes all three before lunch.

In 2015 I went independent and met Odoo for the first time. Since then I have shipped on Odoo from v9 through v20 — Community and Enterprise, custom modules and core extensions, Ukrainian and French clients. Two and a half years inside a French Odoo integrator in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes taught me how to be a French Odoo developer in a French team — the documentation rituals, the code-review habits, the way feature requests translate between business and engineering on this side of the border. Now, independent again, I design and build a suite of fifteen modules published on the Odoo App Store, take on integration and data-migration missions, and contribute to OCA l10n-ukraine, where one of my modules is already merged.

My speciality is integration between heterogeneous systems: history migration, connectors, exchanges in regulatory formats with strict validation. Payroll is the most demanding case — the formats are imposed, validated against a schema, and a silent error is expensive. That is what taught me to work without a margin for error.

What I am looking for next: a permanent role with a small or mid-sized team — what people in France call a famille professionnelle. Where collaboration is at the heart of how things get done, where I belong to a real team again rather than working alone over Slack, and where what I ship matters because it serves real people.