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Work Experience

• System Architect, T-Bank Investments (formerly Tinkoff)

  Jan, 2023 - Present

  Product-led, £4 billion annual revenue financial technology company, delivering innovative digital banking products and services, leveraging cutting-edge technology to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency

  • Designed and implemented an innovative 'client intention' trading model and platform, enabling T-Bank to be first-to-market with options trading for private investors.

  • Delivered an advanced trading platform and model which enabled the launch of fractional share trading and investment services for legal entities, contributing significantly to revenue growth.

  • Designed an integrated front-office system unifying client orders and portfolio entities, resolving data desynchronization issues and enhancing user feedback reliability.

  • Architected a unified domain model for assets (v2, improving on own v1 design) establishing a common language across complex systems (e.g. accounting, middle-office), enabling advanced trading scenarios for high-value clients and facilitating iterative, backward-compatible implementation across teams.

• Scala Tech Lead, T-Bank Investments (formerly Tinkoff)

  Nov, 2018 - Jan, 20234 years 2 months

  • Contributed as a key member of the initial startup team for Tinkoff Investments, helping grow it into Russia's largest investment app despite market skepticism.

  • Played a key role in launching Investkopilka (digital moneybox), engineering middleware to integrate its novel real-time 24/7 transaction model, later replicated by competitors.

  • Engineered internal Scala frameworks incorporating advanced observability (OpenTelemetry) and resilience patterns (circuit breaker, bulkhead), improving service reliability and its launch times from weeks to hours.

  • Engineered a high-performance caching library utilizing singleflight and fallback patterns, reducing backend traffic by up to 100x.

  • Developed a high-throughput search engine for market data, reducing query latency from seconds to milliseconds; design later replicated for other search-focused products.

• Backend Team Lead, Mechanic.guide

  Sep, 2016 - Nov, 20182 years 2 months

  Application for car owners and content management engine for spare part shops

  • Engineered a repair shops and relevant spare parts recommendation engine, based on text descriptions of car problems

  • Built a GraphQL gateway, allowing for rapid frontend development iterations

  • Developed an event sourced content management backend, achieving indexing speeds of several million spare parts per second

• C# Developer, TECHNO Ltd.

  Jul, 2014 - Sep, 20162 years 2 months

  Developer of software for remote control of payment terminals

  • Developed a system for remote management of payment terminals

  • Created a live dashboard to quickly catch on any issues with payment terminal network

Projects Experience

• Conference Presentation: Resilience in Fintech, Conf42 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) 2024

  May, 2024 - May, 20241 day

  Presented on 'Resilience in Fintech: Scala-Powered Strategies for Building Fault-Tolerant Systems' at a major international SRE conference.

  • Addressed complexities of designing robust APIs and resilient architectures for fintech.

  • Talk received strong community response and high viewership.

  • Listed among Tech Talks Weekly's '100 Most Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024'.

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