Aleksandr ☕️ Kitaev

Senior Software Engineer

Berlin, Berlin, Germany7 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

7 years of experience in backend engineering.
Expert in microservices and CI/CD pipeline enhancements.
Proven leadership in developing scalable solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in FinTech and Microservices architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Go (programming Language)MicroservicesDevops

Other Skills

AJAXAPI DevelopmentAWS LambdaAgile Application DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAgile Web DevelopmentAmazon DynamodbAmazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidApache KafkaCascading Style Sheets (CSS)ConfluenceCore JavaCustomer ServiceDatabases

About

Backend Engineer with 7 years of commercial experience. Proficient in designing and implementing diverse system architectures, including microservices and monolithic structures, tailored to specific project needs and requirements. Go, Docker, Kibernates, Microservices. Built full cycle of development: from gathering product owner requirements to establishing fully automated release process with high test coverage, detailed analytics and CI/CD. Adept at Agile methodologies, working in teams ranging from 5 to 30 members, both remotely and on-site, strong in stakeholder communication and cross-functional collaboration, served as a buddy for new team members. Applying SOLID, DRY, KISS, and YAGNI principles to deliver robust solutions.

Experience

7 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Raiffeisen bank international ag

Senior Golang Engineer

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Remote

Led the development of a customer support service, increasing customer auto-detection by 31% and
first call resolution by 19%.
Enhanced CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, reducing build times by 25% and enabling more fre-
quent and reliable deployments.
Expanded system observability and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and Open-
Telemetry that reduced time to identify problem by 50%.
Identified and resolved within 2 hours of detection of a critical production bug causing system
CPU shortage.
Technologies: Go, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Apache Kafka.

Go (Programming Language)LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentElastic Stack (ELK)JSONProgramming Languages+35

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Junior -> Middle -> Senior -> Lead Golang Engineer

Jul 2018 – Feb 2024 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Remote

Migrated legacy monolithic web application to microservice architecture with more than 30
microservices, resulting in a 7-fold reduction in time to market.
Led the development of SSO solution based on an open source project - Keycloak, which helped
expand the customer base by more than 10,000 users.
Integrated 10s of external services such as currency exchange, accounting, and others using REST
and gRPC.
Worked closely with the HR department, simplifying onboarding and mentoring 5+ newcomers.
Technologies: Go, Java, Keycloak, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Redis, ElasticSearch,
Prometheus, Grafana.