paulsemenov
Backend Engineer
Experienced Golang backend developer with over 3 years of experience in scalable, high-load system development. Proven track record delivering full-cycle solutions from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance. Strong expertise in Golang, PostgreSQL and system architecture. Have been working with CI/CD, Kubernetes automation, and DevOps tasks lately. Known for improving performance, streamlining migrations, optimizing infrastructure cost and creating standartization.
Experience: 3 years
Yearly salary: $60,000
Hourly rate: $30
Nationality: 🌏 Remote
Residency: 🌏 Remote
Experience
Middle Backend Engineer
VK 'Marusya' Voice Assistant 2022 - 2023
Built high-performance Python and Go based podcast microservice (220ms p99, 50k daily streams). Added illustrated-story feature (S3 + signed URLs), increasing average user session by 12%. Migrated user-profile REST to gRPC, reducing network traffic by 27%.
DevOps Engineer Intern
Sberbank 2021 - 2021
Worked with Linux systems, Hadoop, Jenkins CI/CD. Handled customer support and infrastructure maintenance tasks.
Backend Engineer
Chitai Gorod 2021 - 2022
Implemented skeleton loading reducing First Contentful Paint by 35% and Largest Contentful Paint by 28%. Optimized checkout using asynchronous goroutines, improving response from 2.5s to 0.9s (-64%). Migrated legacy API-gateway to API-composition (BFF), moving 213 endpoints without downtime. Leading some processes (like grooming, retro) for 4 developers, onboarded 2 new hires, established team knowledge-base, and conducted workshops for colleagues.
Skills
ai
api
architecture
aws
backend
docker
elasticsearch
engineer
firebase
git
kubernetes
nosql
postgres
python
sql
tech-lead
terraform
golang
english
russian