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MPOver 8+ years I've gone from backend engineer to tech lead in fintech, cybersecurity, and edtech — building systems, leading teams, shipping products. Alongside that: served as lead curriculum coordinator for bachelor's and master's programs at MEPhI — one of Russia's top technical universities — taught development at Samsung, and curated educational tracks at JetBrains. Since 2023, I change countries every month — 40+ so far. That experience became Punto Cero: a practicum on how to grow systematically when the ground under you is always shifting.
Cybersecurity SaaS protecting cloud workloads across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Built threat detection features ingesting events from AWS CloudTrail, GCP Audit Logs, and Azure Logs. Developed microservices in Java 21 (Spring Boot), Node.js, Python, and Go. Designed event-driven pipelines with RabbitMQ, set up GitOps deployments to EKS via ArgoCD, and built Grafana dashboards for service-level observability.
Digital lending platform for Southeast Asian markets. Worked on core backend services covering loan origination, credit decisioning, and payment processing. Designed microservices for disbursements, repayments, and payment scheduling. Built async processing pipelines on Kafka and set up distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry. Established testing practices: unit tests with Kotest, integration tests with TestContainers, end-to-end tests with WireMock.
EdTech company building learning management systems. Grew from senior engineer to head of engineering and led a team of 10. Defined technical roadmap and architectural decisions, built the LMS platform from scratch, and designed a CMS for content creators. Developed mobile apps with Jetpack Compose and Flutter. Migrated a monolith to microservices and set up full infrastructure: Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Grafana/Prometheus/Loki.
Core banking software for payment processing and card management. Built features covering the full card lifecycle — issuance, limits, blocking, transaction history. Developed integrations with payment networks and processing centers. Tuned SQL queries and Hibernate mappings for high-load scenarios. Participated in on-call rotations, investigated production incidents. Mentored junior engineers.
NRNU MEPhI
Coordinated curriculum development for bachelor's and master's programs at one of Russia's top technical universities. Worked with teaching staff on course design, aligned academic plans across departments, and maintained educational quality standards.
JetBrains Hyperskill
Created 'Kotlin Backend' track at JetBrains Academy from ground up. Recruited and managed team of content authors. Supervised topics on Ktor and Spring frameworks. Authored 20+ educational topics on Android, Kotlin, Spring, Ktor. Official recommendation letter from JetBrains.
Samsung IT-School
Taught Android development with Java to students of Samsung IT-School. Designed lesson plans, ran hands-on coding workshops, mentored students on real projects through the full development lifecycle.
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mikport26@gmail.com