eugeneleontev

Lead Backend Ruby Engineer

Product-minded engineer with 8+ years of experience building and scaling high-load systems (Ruby on Rails) and delivering user-facing solutions with React. I thrive at the intersection of clean architecture, developer experience, and measurable product impact.



Experience: 8 years

Yearly salary: $110,000

Hourly rate: $55

Nationality: 🌏 Remote

Residency: 🇦🇷 Argentina


Experience

Principal Ruby on Rails Engineer
Fintech Startup (USDT Wallet, Series A)
2024 - 2025
Architected and launched a TRC20 deposit system that became the backbone of the product. Designed automated workflows that scaled from 300 deposits/week to 5,000+ daily within two months. Delivered a referral engine driving 50,000 invites and 12× growth in active users. Produced post-mortems and implemented fixes within hours, ensuring 99.9% reliability.
Lead Ruby Developer
Wallarm (API Security)
2023 - 2024
Directed MySQL → PostgreSQL migration, improving query performance by 32%. Built threats log management system supporting 100K+ secure API calls daily.
Senior Ruby Developer
Eleving Group (Fintech Auto Loans)
2022 - 2022
Redesigned legal reporting pipeline, reducing manual verification time for legal teams by 67%, saving over 100+ staff hours per month. Mitigated regulatory risk by introducing verifiable calculation logic across all client debt reports.
Team Lead / Senior Ruby Developer
Appbooster (High-Load Mobile App)
2018 - 2022
Evolved from Junior Developer to Team Lead, overseeing 12 engineers. Introduced asynchronous daily reporting, cutting meeting time by 45%, improved focus and transparency, and maintained strong team cohesion through open communication and proactive conflict resolution. Diagnosed and optimized top SQL queries (500+ LOC), reducing latency from 250ms to 20ms and other high-load endpoints to 1–2ms. Achieved 10× faster response times, $600/month AWS RDS savings, and a 3× increase in quarterly revenue by improving app responsiveness. Drove backend/frontend collaboration with React Native app serving 10K+ DAU.
Ruby Developer
Bitupper (Blockchain Explorer)
2017 - 2018
Built and scaled a blockchain explorer, boosting daily active users by 35% in 6 months. Published a Ruby wrapper for Bitcoin-Core enabling secure on-chain transactions.

Skills

agile
ai
ansible
api
architecture
aws
backend
bitcoin
blockchain
chatbot
ci-cd
cloud-engineer
co-founder
computer-science
crypto
cryptography
decentralize
defi
developer-advocate
docker
elixir
engineer
engineering-manager
ethereum
ethereumjs
fintech
founding-engineer
full-stack
full-time
gcp
git
golang
heroku
javascript
kubernetes
linux
mongo
nextjs
nginx
nosql
nuxtjs
open-source
postgres
python
rabbitmq
react
react-native
redis
remote
ruby
rust
scrum
security
smart-contract
solidity
sql
tailwind
tech-lead
technical-writer
typescript
vue
web3
web3js
english
russian