nikkodev

Backend Engineer

Backend engineer with 3+ years of commercial experience across high-throughput distributed systems, Web3 trading infrastructure, and AI-powered pipelines. Core stack: Python (FastAPI, asyncio) and TypeScript/Node.js. Full delivery cycle — from architecture design to production deployment and monitoring. Shipped systems processing 20,000+ on-chain transactions/day on Solana and TON, microservices serving 3,000 concurrent users at 20,000 req/day. Deep background in DeFi automation: trading bots, AMM integrations, multi-wallet asset management, and exchange API integration at scale. Integrated LLM pipelines end-to-end — prompt engineering, tool calling, LoRA fine-tuning, inference orchestration. Studying Software Engineering at HSE University (Russia's top CS faculty, expected 2027).

Experience: 4 years

Yearly salary: $68,000

Hourly rate: $25

Nationality: 🇷🇸 Serbia

Residency: 🇷🇺 Russia


Experience

Backend Developer
Candy.ai — AI Media Generation (B2C)
2024 - 2026
Scaled from 0 to 3,000 active users and 20,000 requests/day by architecting a FastAPI + PostgreSQL + MinIO S3 microservice with horizontally scalable workers. Reduced AI media generation latency by 3.7× with a fully automated pipeline: LLM Tool Calling, custom LoRA fine-tuned models, async job queuing.
Backend Web3 Developer
Zerion — Web3 DeFi Launch Team
2024 - 2025
Processed 20,000+ on-chain transactions/day via trading bots on TON DEX and Solana launchpads; 150+ wallet asset management system with wallet-linking protection. Increased community trading volume 5.3× with a Hype Train bot executing buy orders based on real-time on-chain and chat activity signals. Delivered AI-powered terminal + mini-game experiences for top Solana tokens; HFT volume bots via Solana.js + Jupiter API (1-wallet-per-tx architecture).
Full-Stack Developer
Freelance & Independent Projects
2022 - 2024
Monetized a 3,000+ user referral network with a multi-tier system + automated payouts (94.3% first-attempt success rate). Cut manual product monitoring from 6 hrs → 11 min/day with an async Python scraper tracking 300+ new listings/day on JD.com.

Skills

backend
blockchain
python
solana
ton-developer
typescript
web3js
english