Contact information
- Email: cv@djer.dev
- Telegram: @djeer
- Linkedin: link
- Location: Limassol, Cyprus (EU)
Professional Summary
As a product-oriented software engineer, I have consistently contributed in technical leadership roles, focusing on:
- scaling up from MVP stage to mature products
- optimizing IOPS and latency in a trading systems
- implementing CI/CD practices and E2E tests culture
- planning and hiring processes
Professional Experience
Cordless
Software Engineer
Oct 2021 - Present (3y 6m)
AI, Golang, Terraform, GCP, Python, GraphQL
Built a call center SaaS with event-driven architecture ensuring 100% uptime
- Joined product on early stage, developed serverless Golang services
- Implemented AI CSAT features, boosting our rating to 4.6/5 on G2 Reviews (better than Aircall and Skype)
- Established CI/CD infrastructure and E2E tests for seamless deployments
SerenityGPT
Software Engineer, Co-Founder (part-time)
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024 (1y)
AI, Python, Django, JavaScript, React, Terraform
Launched an AI semantic search startup, focusing on data ownership and local processing
- Developed MVP with Python and React, attracting paid trial customers
- Hired and managed frontend and backend contractors
- Designed evaluation infrastructure, achieving 86% response accuracy
- Improved search performance using results reranking and embeddings benchmarks
Finchtrade
Software Engineer in Fintech
Golang, NATS, Postgres, Python
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019 and Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Developed scalable trading systems and back-office solution for 24/7 operations
- Created market making system MVP in 3 months, securing major client
- Developed trading platform back-office and monitoring systems
OneMarketData
Market Surveillance Solutions Engineer
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021 (1y)
Python, C++, Pandas, Code generation
Engineered market abuse monitoring algorithms for major US clients
- Developed and optimised variants of insider trading detection and pinging detection
- Extended framework for code generation into timeseries database queries
- Improved team efficiency with custom tooling for in-house database
IBITCY
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020 (1y 1m)
Python, Flask, AngularJS, JavaScript, Node.js, C++
Specialized in high-load backend systems and legacy system scaling
- Supported ~20k online users on Node.js and Python
- Extended and scaled legacy C++ project
Scrutiny Startup
Software Engineer, Co-founder
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018 (6m)
Python, CUDA, numpy
Launched arbitrage trading startup
- Optimized the calculation engine, enhancing performance from 80k to 3M trading routes, with a benchmark execution time of 0.1 seconds, through the development of more efficient algorithms
- Reverse engineered frontend websocket APIs where necessary to increase performance
Safe Communications
Lead Backend Developer
Dec 2016 - Feb 2018 (1y 2m)
Python, Django, Postgres, TypeScript, Golang
Led development of IoT Management Platform from MVP to production
- Managed a team of three backend engineers
- Developed solutions for GPS trackers and mobile apps
MTS Group
Billing Engineer & Analyst
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 (1y)
Python, Oracle
Managed API integrations and conducted data analysis for billing systems
- Integrated third-party payment providers
- Analyzed CCI data using Python and Oracle PL/SQL
Geology Research Company
Sysadmin
Aug 2010 - Jan 2016 (5y 5m)
Managed office IT infrastructure
- Maintained Active Directory domain with zero incidents
- Developed company website, attracting new clients
Education
Kuban State University of Technology
- BSc, Information Security 2012-2016
- Multidisciplinary InfoSec: Programming, Hacking, Cryptography, Compliance, Electrotechnics
- ASc, Software Engineer 2009-2012
- Software Engineering, Algorithms, Networks
Keywords
- Languages: main expertise: Golang and Python, some: JavaScript, C++ and Rust
- Storage: main expertise: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Firestore, Redis, some: ClickHouse, MongoDB, Annoy, Faiss, BM25
- Infra: Terraform, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, Managed Kubernetes, CI/CD
- Queues: NATS, RabbitMQ, GCP Pub/Sub, Amazon SQS/SNS
- AI: OpenAI, AssemblyAI, local text and audio LLMs, RAG, local embedding models
- Protocols:: FIX, gRPC, GraphQL, GraphQL, Websockets
- Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry