Nearly 30 years in software development, with deep focus on complex financial systems: payment infrastructure, trading platforms, financial data analysis, and risk management. Proficient in Go and Python; experienced across the full backend stack from microservice design to CI/CD pipelines and production operations.

Experience

Plata Card

Senior Backend Engineer
May 2023 — present Tbilisi, Georgia

Owned major API gateway epics including a full rework of the accounts surface and a v1→v2 migration across services with no downtime. Led monolith-to-microservices migration; built the service template and bootstrapped new services from it. Built an AI code-review integration from scratch, rolled it platform-wide. Brought up a new tenant/region end-to-end.

Go gRPC Kafka PostgreSQL MongoDB Kubernetes

Joom

Senior Software Engineer
Apr 2020 — Mar 2023 Yerevan, Armenia

Refactored and stabilized the billing and payment infrastructure for a global marketplace. Integrated multiple external payment providers. Built a billing system for internal clients. Delivered EU and GB tax compliance (VAT/GST) across the payment stack.

Go Protobuf gRPC REST MongoDB Docker Kubernetes AWS

Bitlish

Lead Backend Developer
Aug 2018 — Feb 2020 Moscow, Russia

Built a trader automation platform from scratch: volume maintenance, triangular arbitrage, and market-making strategies with multi-provider extensibility. Delivered a full-stack system — Python microservices, a trader-facing frontend, and real-time order book collectors integrated with multiple exchanges. Led a small team; owned architecture, code review, and CI/CD.

Python 3 asyncio WebSockets PostgreSQL Redis Nginx Docker Kubernetes Helm

Alfa Capital Holdings

Senior Backend Developer
Nov 2015 — Aug 2018 Moscow, Russia

Drove adoption of microservice architecture; integrated with banking and exchange systems. Designed and documented critical financial service APIs. Implemented CI pipelines; set up and maintained production and test environments. Led technical direction: task analysis, code review, developer mentoring.

PHP 7 Symfony PostgreSQL MariaDB Redis Kafka Nginx Docker

Earlier — 1997–2015 · Moscow, Russia

Moscow State University · Web Developer & SysAdmin 2006 — 2015
Ermak Analytic Group · Exchange data aggregation & dealer decision-support 2001 — 2005
Microcredit firm · Back-office & bank-interaction automation 2005 — 2006
Russian Stock Capital · Back-office systems for stock brokerage 1997 — 2000