Aleksandr Nechaev
@aleksandrnechaev
Senior Backend Engineer specializing in reactive microservices and AI-powered RAG platforms for scalable fintech systems.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and building scalable distributed systems across fintech, banking, and insurance. I focus on production reliability, strong system design, and delivering measurable performance improvements.
At Neoflex, I led a migration from a blocking architecture (Spring MVC) to a reactive stack (Spring WebFlux + R2DBC), increasing system throughput by 30% and improving stability under peak load. I also designed and implemented a microservices-based car insurance platform with fault isolation and independent service deployment, reducing time-to-market by 20% and enabling seamless provider replacement.
I’ve built and modernized services for corporate banking and insurance, including a secure 2FA platform and mortgage insurance services with automated renewals and notifications—boosting customer retention by 15%. I’m hands-on with performance optimization, event-driven design, and backend patterns that stand up in real production environments.
Beyond traditional backend work, I’ve built an AI Knowledge Assistant (RAG Platform) as a personal project, combining embeddings generation, vector similarity retrieval, and LLM integrations to support conversational Q&A over private documents. I also enjoy mentoring through code reviews and technical leadership, helping teams improve delivery velocity and engineering quality.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Backend Engineer
VTB
Feb 2020 - Oct 2024 (4 years 8 months)
Led migration from a blocking Spring MVC architecture to a reactive stack using Spring WebFlux and R2DBC, increasing throughput by 30% and improving stability under peak load.
Senior Software Developer
Neoflex
Jan 2014 - Oct 2024 (10 years 9 months)
Senior Backend Engineer role at Neoflex (2014–2024) spanning reactive migrations, microservices delivery, reliability improvements, and engineering mentoring across fintech and insurance projects.
Backend Engineer
SBI
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020 (2 months)
Developed a secure two-factor authentication (2FA) platform for corporate banking customers and improved maintainability through refactoring and engineering best practices.
Senior Backend Engineer
VTB24
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 11 months)
Implemented throttling and load-control mechanisms to eliminate peak-load production failures, and created automated cleanup processes to reduce infrastructure growth costs.
Backend Engineer
RNB
Jan 2014 - Dec 2017 (3 years 11 months)
Developed core backend services for a car-loan issuance platform, increased automated test coverage to 90%, and refactored legacy modules while mentoring QA engineers and new team members.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Saratov Chernyshevsky State University
Bachelor of Science, Radiophysics and Electronics
Earned a BS in Radiophysics and Electronics at Saratov Chernyshevsky State University.
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