Chief Technology Officer
Novatrum Group
Aug 2025 — PresentLeads a five-engineer team building a nationwide LMS; designed a system rated at 100,000 RPS and delivered its services, scheduling model, cloud infrastructure, and observability.
• Architected a high-load distributed system handling up to 100,000 RPS with horizontal scalability, fault tolerance, and observability built in.
• Delivered 15+ microservices across Kotlin (Spring Boot), Python (FastAPI), Go, Nest.js, Next.js, plus a Flutter mobile app.
• Designed and trained a custom neural network for automatic schedule generation, optimizing thousands of timetable combinations under teacher, classroom, and student constraints.
Senior Software Engineer
Zencoder
AI-powered developer tooling for VS Code and JetBrains.
May 2024 — Mar 2026Designed and shipped cross-platform IDE plugin architecture and features, and improved performance and maintainability across a large codebase.
• Designed a cross-platform plugin architecture in Kotlin, Python, and TypeScript powering both VS Code and JetBrains IDEs.
• Drove targeted performance and maintainability improvements across a large existing codebase spanning React, Spring Boot, and FastAPI.
• Shipped scalable plugin features delivering a consistent developer experience across multiple IDE platforms.
Chief Technology Officer
Archimedes Kazakhstan
Aug 2022 — Aug 2025As CTO, architected a nationwide medical platform reported to support about 500K requests per second, and led its multi-region Kubernetes, AWS, and secrets-management infrastructure.
• Designed a microservices architecture supporting ~500K requests/sec with strong horizontal scalability and fault isolation.
• Improved resilience by deploying a Kubernetes cluster across 5 geographically distributed regions.
• Led adoption of AWS infrastructure (S3, SQS, EC2) for high-throughput processing and secure document storage.
• Hardened security by centralizing secrets and enforcing service-to-service auth via HashiCorp Vault.
Middle+ Software Engineer
Aitu-DALA
Big Data and Data Lake engineering.
Jul 2021 — Nov 2022Built Scala streaming services, NiFi ETL pipelines, and integrations for a data lake project.
• Built Scala services with Spark Streaming + Kafka to ship documents from Document DB into AWS S3 for the Data Lake project.
• Designed ETL pipelines on Apache NiFi, optimizing throughput and reliability for large-scale ingestion and transformation.
• Delivered integrations connecting internal company projects to the Data Lake environment.
Senior Backend Developer
Halyk Bank Kazakhstan
Online banking platform serving 100,000+ business clients.
Dec 2020 — Jun 2021Shipped over 20 banking features, built Kotlin services and Kafka microservices, and supported a high-volume online banking platform.
• Shipped 20+ banking features and resolved critical incidents in large-scale legacy systems built on Wicket.
• Engineered backend APIs and core banking services in Kotlin + Spring Framework, integrating multiple internal financial & payment systems.
• Designed event-driven microservices on Apache Kafka processing thousands of async ops daily — improving resiliency and throughput.
• Operated in a high-load fintech environment handling millions of daily transactions.
