Backend engineer working on payment systems - Go and Python, mostly. I like the messy parts: provider cascades, retries, idempotency, and the analytics that tell you whether any of it is actually working.

Currently Tech Lead at a payments startup, where I design P2P payment flows, route traffic across providers over NATS, and run our analytics on ClickHouse.

I care most about reliability and observability - distributed tracing, structured logs, and dashboards that catch issues before users do.

Originally from Russia, spent time in Vietnam, now based in Seattle. Outside of work I'm usually gaming or out on a long walk.