🚀 Backend Engineer focused on Go, distributed systems, and payment infrastructure.
I enjoy building reliable backend services, designing fault-tolerant architectures, and solving problems around payments, consistency, retries, and high-load systems.
🎓 B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science — Saint Petersburg State University
🎓 M.Sc. in Mathematics & Computer Science — Moscow State University
🏫 Graduate of Yandex Backend School
💼 Professional experience in fintech, payment systems, and R&D
🌍 Currently exploring opportunities in international backend and fintech teams
🐹 Go • ⚡ C++ • 🐍 Python • 🗄 SQL
🐘 PostgreSQL • 🔴 Redis • 📨 Kafka
🐳 Docker • ☸️ Kubernetes • ☁️ AWS • 🔧 GitHub Actions
🔄 CQRS • 📡 Event-Driven Architecture • 🎯 Saga Pattern • 🔒 Distributed Locking • ♻️ Idempotency • 🤝 Distributed Transactions
📈 OpenTelemetry • 📊 Grafana • 🔍 Prometheus • 📉 VictoriaMetrics
A multi-provider payment routing system inspired by real-world payment orchestration platforms.
Key features:
✅ Stripe integration
✅ Automatic provider failover
✅ Priority, Weighted, and Success-Based routing
✅ Idempotent APIs
✅ Redis-backed rate limiting
✅ gRPC microservice architecture
✅ VictoriaMetrics + Grafana observability
🔗 Repository: https://github.com/bashkirian/payment-orchestrator
A reference implementation of CQRS patterns in Go.
🔗 Repository: https://github.com/bashkirian/go.cqrs
💳 Payment Systems
⚙️ Distributed Systems
📡 Event-Driven Architectures
🔍 Reliability Engineering
🏗 System Design
🚀 High-Load Backend Services
🌱 Open Source
- Advanced payment orchestration patterns
- Reliability and fault tolerance in distributed systems
- Large-scale fintech architectures
- Production observability practices
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/almaz-shagiev/
💬 Telegram: https://t.me/AlmazShagiev
📫 Always happy to discuss: Go • Fintech • Payments • Kafka • PostgreSQL • Distributed Systems