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Summary

Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Kotlin) with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and refactoring high‑load backend systems using Kotlin/Java 8-24, Spring Boot, and hexagonal architecture. I specialize in troubleshooting performance issues in complex monoliths, shaping scalable microservice architectures, and automating delivery with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, TeamCity).

I am comfortable working across the UI stack when needed (Angular-based admin UIs) and used to agile environments, primarily Scrum (LeSS) and Kanban.

I’ve worked in teams of 2-7 people and closely collaborated with analysts, DevOps, managers.
During my career I’ve been working in fintech & insurance domain and also got experience with SaaS and
internal enterprise platforms.

I’m interested in solving architectural tasks and look for project where I could be helpful in this direction.

Work Experience

Dec 2024 – now Senior Kotlin Developer, Altabel Group

Product: Gift cards selling application.
Environment: Kotlin, Spring Boot, REST API, OAuth, Keycloak, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Loki, Grafana, MariaDB, Gitlab, 3 backend developers, 1 devops.
Responsibilities:

  • Designed and implemented core backend microservices from scratch.
  • Ensured that backend is able to handle 200-300 RPS with Infinispan cache.
  • Designed MariadDB schema and ElasticSearch indexes.
  • Introduced static code analysis (detekt tool) improving code quality and enforcing coding standards across services.
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD: GitLab pipeline, Gitlab agent installation in cluster.
  • Designed and implemented multi-realms(1 realm per 1 organization) authorization architecture leveraging Keycloak.
  • Improved platform reliability by delivering seamless Keycloak upgrades with configuration migrations and template adaptations.
  • Ensured operational visibility by running centralized logging and monitoring with Loki and Grafana.
  • Ensured authorization system resilience by running Keycloak replicas in Kubernetes.

Sep 2022 – Nov 2024 Senior Kotlin Developer, Altabel Group

Product: Credit conveyor for issuing loans to individuals.
Environment: Kotlin, Spring Boot, ELK, PostgreSQL, 5 backend developers.
Responsibilities:

  • Refactored Open API to remove tight coupling to an internal app, enabling integration of external partners into the credit conveyor.
  • Delivered business features per product requests: automatic repayments, cession, integration with an external bank for stable repayment processing.
  • Participated in architecture discussions; implemented hexagonal architecture; delivered service contracts (REST, Apache Thrift) with unit and integration tests.
  • Implemented Spring Cloud Consul Agent customization for re-registering microservice in case of Consul agent restart.

Apr 2020 – Jun 2022 Senior Java Developer, EPAM

Product: Corporate library.
Environment: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot/MVC, MySQL, 5 backend developers
Responsibilities:

  • Reduced manual work for performance analysts by integrating the collaboration system (Spring MVC, Atlassian Confluence, ~100k users, ~1 TB MySQL) with the performance testing engine (REST API, Spring Boot/Data/Security, OAuth 2.0, JWT, Thymeleaf, Apache JMeter).
  • Reduced escalations by tuning JVM garbage collector.
  • Reduced escalations by optimizing problematic SQL queries (MySQL).
  • Established a continuous performance analysis process and mentored two engineers.
  • Decreased Time to Interactive (TTI) by 0.5s by configuring caching on Akamai CDN.
  • Delivered talks for MJC (Minsk Java Community) School.

Apr 2018 – Jan 2020 Senior Java Developer, EPAM

Product: Business process automation for an insurance company.
Environment: Java, Selenium, MySQL, AWS S3
Responsibilities:

  • Developed automation for day-to-day business processes (insurance domain, WorkFusion, Spring MVC, Java 11, Windows Server, Selenium).
  • Decreased escalations by improving monolithic architecture and refactoring code.

Nov 2016 – Mar 2018 Java Developer, BlazeMeter LTD

Product: Test-plan generator for Apache JMeter.
Environment: Java, Apache JMeter, AWS EC2, AWS S3
Responsibilities:

  • Developed a test-plan generator (Java 8, Apache JMeter, Spring Boot, AWS) to improve UX of the SaaS performance testing platform.

Nov 2015 – Oct 2016 Java Developer, BlazeMeter LTD

Product: Java library for CI/CD plugins.
Environment: Java, Maven, Nexus, REST API
Responsibilities:

  • Designed a Java library for existing CI/CD plugins.

Jan 2013 – Oct 2015 Java Developer, BlazeMeter LTD

Product: CI/CD plugins for a SaaS platform.
Environment: Java, Maven, Nexus, REST API
Responsibilities:

  • Designed CI/CD plugins (Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo) for a performance testing SaaS platform to run load tests within CI/CD pipelines.
  • Developed a component for the open-source project Apache JMeter DNS Cache Manager to distribute load evenly from different locations during load testing.

Technical Skills

  • Languages: Java (9+ years), Kotlin (4+ years)
  • Backend: Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, Ktor
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Liquibase, Elasticsearch
  • Infrastructure & CI/CD: Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Git, GitLab CI, TeamCity
  • Messaging & Integration: REST APIs, Apache Kafka, Apache Thrift
  • Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, Route 53)
  • Caching & Logging: Infinispan, ELK, Loki
  • Security & Identity: OAuth 2.0, Keycloak
  • Performance: JVM tuning, SQL query optimization, application performance analysis

Foreign Languages

  • English: B2 – upper-intermediate; confident in professional communication and reading/writing technical documentation.

Education

2001–2006 Electronics Design, Bachelor, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR)

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