Senior / Lead Software Engineer · Java · Kotlin · Golang · 8+ years
Backend · High-Load · Distributed Systems · Cloud (AWS / GCP) · AI Infrastructure
🇬🇧 London, UK  |  🏅 UK Global Talent (Tech Nation — Exceptional Talent)

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• 🇬🇧 UK Global Talent — formally endorsed by Tech Nation / UK Government for exceptional contributions to the digital technology sector
• 🥇 Top 1% Global Mentor on ADPList — 135+ sessions across mentees from 19 countries
• 📝 1st place Winner of the global DevOps Writing Conteston HackerNoon — $2,000 prize
• 🏅 Top 2% Stack Overflow contributor (2023)
• ⚖️ Expert Jury Member at international hackathons KaiCode (Huawei) & Urbaton — evaluated 400+ repositories alongside engineers from Sber and Yandex
• 🎓 MSc Applied Mathematics & Informatics, Samara University — GPA 5.0/5.0, with Honors

• ⭐ Iced-Latte · 🚀 Live Demo

  🔗 GitHub Backend ·
  🔗 GitHub Frontend ·

  Open-source coffee marketplace with 70+ contributors. Features GenAI agents for automated code reviews, content moderation, and LLM-driven sentiment analysis. (technical overview)
  

• Yulia-Lingo · · 🔗 GitHub · 🤖 Try Bot

  English Learning Telegram Bot.
  

• Festiva · · 🔗 GitHub · 🤖 Try Bot

  Java-based Telegram bot that helps users manage and receive reminders about birthdays.
  

• TIMETABLE.IS · · 🔗 GitHub · 🤖 Try Bot

  Python Telegram bot for worldwide time zones. Get current time for any city and compare time differences across continents.
  

• ⭐ URL-Shortener · 🚀 Live Demo

  🔗 GitHub Backend ·
  🔗 GitHub Frontend ·

  High-performance URL shortening service with JWT authentication, caching, and rate limiting. Backend built with Kotlin + Spring Boot, frontend with React + TypeScript.
  

Also worked with: Terraform · Helm · Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry · Jaeger · gRPC · GraphQL · DynamoDB · Apache Hive · AWS SQS/SNS · RabbitMQ · Spring WebFlux · Testcontainers · RAG Pipelines · Prompt Engineering

• 🥇 Top 1% Global Mentor on ADPList — 135+ sessions, mentees from 19 countries
• Industry Mentor at City, University of London (certificate)
• Mentor at Women In Tech (certificate)

• Building a CI/CD Pipeline with AWS, K8S, Docker, Ansible, Git, Github, and Jenkins — 42k views · 🥇 1st place, HackerNoon DevOps Writing Contest
• Microservice Architecture Patterns: Decomposition Patterns — 31k views on HackerNoon
• "Что значит «вариативный»?" — 24k views on Skillbox (Russian)

• Founder of a 930+ engineers community sharing insights on system design, high-load architectures, and backend engineering. (community info)

• Coding and System Design Tech Interview with Zufar Sunagatov — 15k+ views (Russian)
• Who is a Java Developer? — 7k+ views (Russian)
• IT DevOps Podcast: Master New Age DevOps Practices — 3k+ views (English)
• Web v1.0 vs Web v2.0 vs Web v3.0 — 1k+ views (English)