Alexey
Plotnikov

• ◆Designed and developed a SaaS platform for online booking in beauty salons and barbershops.
• ◆Built a production-grade backend with Micronaut native image compilation — optimized for fast startup and cloud deployment.
• ◆Designed cloud-native architecture and deployed on Kubernetes with automated CI/CD pipelines.
• ◆Implemented infrastructure automation for repeatable and scalable environment provisioning.
• ◆Leveraged AI-assisted development (Anthropic Claude) to accelerate system design, backend implementation, and infrastructure setup — significantly reducing time-to-market.

• ◆Led architecture and development of a unified chatbot backend platform for customer support automation, handling large-scale interactions and reducing human agent involvement.
• ◆Replaced fragmented legacy systems with a PostgreSQL-based product management service (Quarkus CRUD), creating a single source of truth for chatbot products.
• ◆Architected a predictive context system: user data pre-fetched in parallel during call initiation and stored in distributed cache — enabling real-time intent prediction and faster bot responses.
• ◆Introduced Quarkus native image builds with CI/CD pipelines, improving runtime efficiency.
• ◆Designed and delivered a cross-account support feature for multi-number phone requests — previously attempted multiple times without success, now production-ready and unique within the company.
• ◆Led backend migration from Java (Quarkus) to Go-based microservices.
• ◆Led AI-driven engineering initiative: defined internal best practices for Cursor AI, reducing service development from ~1 week to 20–30 minutes.
• ◆Performed system design (C4), technical reviews, mentoring, and end-to-end feature delivery.

• ◆Built and maintained backend functionality for warehouse and inventory systems in a distributed environment.
• ◆Recommended technology upgrades to simplify microservice development and improve maintainability.
• ◆Designed and implemented a search service using Elasticsearch and Debezium, improving data availability and search performance.

• ◆Designed and built backend architecture for EasyBox — an Uber-like courier delivery platform.
• ◆Implemented core business logic and infrastructure from scratch (4-person team).
• ◆Owned backend development and SRE responsibilities including server deployment and production support.

• ◆Started as a Java developer in payment processing; grew into Architect / Team Lead.
• ◆Led development of SmartKeeper — a platform enabling banks and payment providers to build custom e-wallet systems on top of existing payment infrastructure.
• ◆Delivered ~20 production integrations across banks, payment systems, and telecom operators in Russia and CIS countries.
• ◆Designed architecture supporting multiple payment protocols, mobile balance payments, and experimental cryptocurrency support (testnet).
• ◆Ensured PCI DSS compliance across multiple enterprise-grade integrations.
• ◆Managed a team of 8–10 engineers across multiple client projects.
• ◆Built CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Ansible.

• ◆Full-stack Java developer in the FXBank team — customer-facing financial web applications.
• ◆Developed frontend and backend components for a personal banking web portal.
• ◆Collaborated in a cross-functional engineering team delivering financial services features.

• ◆Contributed to Contingent — a student lifecycle management platform; became lead developer within a small team.
• ◆Developed and maintained Abiturient system used by the admissions office for applicant processing and ranking.
• ◆Participated in Aviaflot project integrating booking systems with GDS providers (Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre).
• ◆Stack: Java, Swing, GlassFish, Java Web Start, Oracle DB; plus PHP and Qt.

• ◆Managed university computer labs and IT infrastructure.
• ◆Supported Windows and Unix systems, LDAP, networking, and workstation administration.

Master of Applied Mathematics and Informatics

• ◆Specialization in Applied Mathematics and Informatics
• ◆Participated in Oracle DB olympiad (2008)

Bachelor of Mathematics and Computer Science

• ◆Specialization in Mathematics and Computer Science