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Vlad Kouzin Backend Engineer
linkedin:
vkouzin
github:
cufee
Summary
Experienced Go Backend Engineer with 4+ years in distributed systems. Proven ability to develop high-performance Go applications, consolidate complex microservices, and work with SQL databases. Skilled in API design and ensuring system stability through comprehensive testing.
Skills
  1. Go, TypeScript, SQL
  2. Node.js, React, HTMX
  3. CircleCI, BitBucket, GitHub, OpenAI
  4. NIX, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP
Experience
Zont
Backend Engineer
2023 - Present
  1. Consolidated over 7 microservices into a single, highly efficient Go application, reducing compute costs by 70%.
  2. Refactored existing deployment configurations in order to facilitate a cloud to on-premise compute migration.
  3. Migrated existing code bases from MongoDB to SQLite and PostgreSQL.
  4. Refactored legacy code bases, writing extensive unit tests and configuring CI/CD pipelines.
AlertMedia
Platform Engineer
2022 - 2023
  1. Developed internal tooling in TypeScript and refactored an existing Python code base.
  2. Led a comprehensive Docker Compose configuration refactor effort, automating developer onboarding.
  3. Led a migration from BitBucket to CircleCI, reducing CI/CD pipeline run time from over an hour to 7 minutes.
  4. Developed a release portal, connecting AWS, BitBucket, Slack, JIRA, Confluence, and Jenkins into a single application for production release automation.
  5. Developed an advanced BitBucket pipeline runner capable of executing existing pipeline configurations locally using Docker.
Chili Piper - KosmoTime
Backend Engineer
2022 - 2022
  1. Refactored Go microservices, implementing new features and adding unit tests.
  2. Improved service stability by writing tests covering over 90% of key packages.
  3. Maintained and expanded Kubernetes cluster configurations on Google Cloud Platform.
Chili Piper
Fullstack Engineer
2021 - 2022
  1. Developed internal tooling for Customer Support, QA, and Product teams.
  2. Designed and implemented internal tooling in Svelte and Go, aggregating data from Salesforce, JIRA, ZenDesk, and MongoDB into a single customer support portal.
  3. Developed performant customer-facing tools and Chrome extensions, reducing average issue resolution times by 35%.
  4. Worked on unique customer implementations of ChiliPiper software in WordPress, HubSpot, and many more advanced flows.
Projects
Aftermath
  1. Highly rated Discord Bot for in-game progress tracking with a beautiful UI, written in Go.
  2. Developed a custom 2D rendering engine in order to render UIs into images consumable through Discord.
Pulley
  1. A user-friendly CLI tool written in TypeScript, designed to automate developer onboarding by setting up all required git repositories and generating a Docker Compose configuration file.
  2. Pulley simplified a large chunk of the onboarding process at AlertMedia, saving over an hour of time for each new developer.
Feedlr
  1. Ad-free YouTube frontend alternative with build-in sponsor blocking and zero tracking, written in TypeScript and Go.
  2. Implemented a system of proxies and authentication spoofing in order to serve a large number of users while using internal Google APIs.
Listik
  1. A user-friendly application for collaborating on shopping lists, written in TypeScript and Go
  2. Developed with Svelte and SQLite in order to be extremely fast and simple.