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Senior
Registration: 11.07.2026

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Specialization: Backend Engineer (Go)
Backend engineer with 5+ years building and operating production Go systems across fintech, marketplace, pricing, and crypto domains. — Real-time pricing platform at inDrive (14 AWS/EKS clusters, globally distributed). — Payment antifraud scoring at Avito covering 50%+ of SBP payment traffic, built from scratch. — Core Telegram Mini App migrated from TypeScript to Go at Blum (22M daily active users, 200K concurrent). — Telegram Stars payment gateway at Blum, unblocking token listing (300K+ Stars in first two months). — Catalog database at Ozon: ~1 TB monolith split into 24 shards, zero downtime. — Crypto market-making backend and EVM chain deployments at GotBit.
Backend engineer with 5+ years building and operating production Go systems across fintech, marketplace, pricing, and crypto domains. — Real-time pricing platform at inDrive (14 AWS/EKS clusters, globally distributed). — Payment antifraud scoring at Avito covering 50%+ of SBP payment traffic, built from scratch. — Core Telegram Mini App migrated from TypeScript to Go at Blum (22M daily active users, 200K concurrent). — Telegram Stars payment gateway at Blum, unblocking token listing (300K+ Stars in first two months). — Catalog database at Ozon: ~1 TB monolith split into 24 shards, zero downtime. — Crypto market-making backend and EVM chain deployments at GotBit.

Skills

Go
PostgreSQL
Kafka
Redis
gRPC
REST API
Docker
Kubernetes
Microservices
SQL
TypeScript
Python
AWS
Terraform
Ansible
ClickHouse
MongoDB
Prometheus
Grafana
Jaeger
Linux
GraphQL
Helm
PgBouncer
C++
Bash
GitHub Actions
Nginx
OpenTracing
EKS

Work experience

Senior Backend Engineer — Pricing Platform
11.2025 - 06.2026 |inDrive
Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana
● Built and operated the Go backend behind inDrive's real-time pricing — the price shown when a user opens the app and enters a destination. ● Owned services making pricing decisions across 14 AWS/EKS clusters, focusing on latency, correctness, and operational visibility. ● Refactored the MCP HTTP server, added metrics, dashboards, and alerts that made the pricing path easier to debug and support. ● Built backend flows for pricing experiments, releases, and switchbacks in partnership with A/B testing and ML teams. ● Tightened API/service boundaries and production runbooks for high-traffic user-facing flows.
Senior Backend Engineer
02.2025 - 08.2025 |Blum
Go, PostgreSQL, PgBouncer, pgx/v5, Redis, pprof, Jaeger, Telegram API
● Migrated the flagship @Blum Telegram Mini App launcher bot from a TypeScript MVP to Go; profiled hot paths with pprof/Jaeger — new service sustained 200K concurrent users and 22M daily active users at peak. ● Designed and feature-led (team of 3) a Telegram Stars payment gateway, unblocking the bulk-send API critical to the token listing; earned 300K+ Stars (~$4K) in the first two months. ● Stabilized PostgreSQL access under listing load using external PgBouncer, mandatory pgx/v5 pooling, missing-index fixes, and lock fixes. ● Reworked high-traffic data access by moving hot OLTP paths to PostgreSQL and archiving cold data, reducing storage pressure and improving latency. ● Improved SDK-level logs/traces/metrics, led listing-related incident response, and saved ~400 GB in a sharded Redis cluster through low-risk Go optimizations.
Senior Backend Engineer — Payments & Antifraud
11.2023 - 01.2025 |Avito
Go, PostgreSQL, PgBouncer, microservices, gRPC, REST API, PCI DSS
● Built payment-antifraud scoring for SBP instant transfers (50%+ of all payment traffic) from scratch; mapped 11+ cross-team microservice integrations end to end. ● Redesigned the antifraud engine around a schemaless event/feature model, making API-partner integration faster and increasing test coverage via Go 1.22 generics. ● Fixed a hidden PgBouncer/PostgreSQL connection bug, raising daily credit-score recompute success for 2M+ users from 75% to 99.99%; added logging, tracing, and alerting to prevent regressions. ● Delivered ~50% of the work directly inside other teams' codebases, including PCI DSS scope, with careful review and rollout discipline.
Backend Engineer / Tech Lead
10.2022 - 11.2023 |GotBit
Go, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Ethereum, Solana, TON, PostgreSQL, Pub/Sub
● Built an algorithmic copy-trading backend for Base Chain (chain id 8453), evaluating routing APIs and integrating Zerion as the paid provider after technical discovery. ● Created an internal microservices API for blockchain event scanning (logs, tx.data) with Pub/Sub and polling interfaces, reducing RPC provider costs and simplifying backend integrations. ● Tech-led deployment of two production EVM chain forks (Vitru, Asset Chain): modified go-ethereum (geth), deployed boot nodes, and managed dev/stage/prod rollout across 24 servers with Ansible. ● Built AWS infrastructure as code in Terraform (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, P2P over UDP) with CI linting and secure delivery checks. ● Delivered backend integrations across EVM, Solana, and TON, including Solana launchpad work and a Dedust SDK used by market-making systems.
Backend Engineer — Catalog Availability
07.2020 - 10.2022 |Ozon
Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, gRPC, REST API, Prometheus, Grafana
● Planned and executed a zero-downtime split of a ~1 TB monolithic database into 24 shards, stabilizing catalog availability and reducing support load. ● Sped up Kafka consumers/producers 2.5x under strict resource quotas, making seller items purchasable immediately after creation. ● Designed and built a Go service with gRPC API and REST-style HTTP handlers for front-end and internal API partners. ● Built a product measurement automation pipeline handling 500K+ measurements per day across domains. ● Owned production reliability for catalog services: dashboards, alerts, postmortems, gradual migrations, and operational runbooks across ~11 services.

Educational background

Applied Mathematics & Computer Science (System Programming) (Bachelor’s Degree)
2020 - 2024
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

Languages

RussianElementaryEnglishIntermediate