Andrei Pliukhaev

I take products from idea to production on my own — backend, frontend, mobile apps, infrastructure and releases — and contract B2B.

What I'm building

Dilijan Logistics — a taxi dispatch platform. Before it, the fleet took every order by phone. I built the whole product: a web app for dispatchers, mobile apps for passengers and drivers on iOS and Android, the backend, and a chat-bot for notif

As lead & mentor:
* Managed the development team: sprint planning, daily standups, onboarding new developers.
* Mentored trainees on working within the company and on projects.

As engineer & release manager:
* Automated release processes with GitHub Actions.
* Ran releases for several applications in Azure (pipelines / releases).
* Shipped KSQL solutions in Confluent.
* Developed and maintained a

* Worked on breaking down a monolithic architecture into microservices, reducing environment rollout time from one hour to several minutes.
* Rewrote services from GraphQL to REST, following layered patterns (orchestrators, services, repositories).
* Extracted common logic into shared SDKs to reduce code duplication and improve maintainability.
Implemented rollouts for groups of services as part o

* Led several frontend projects (React, Vue) under tight budgets and shifting scopes. Responsible for sprint planning, demos, task distribution, and client communications while contributing to the codebase.
* Handled CI/CD pipelines using Bash and Jenkins.
* Mentored a group of student interns who developed a SaaS tool aggregating alerts from Jira, Bitbucket, and Jenkins — several received full-ti

* Built and optimized data synchronization with Russia’s national veterinary control system “Mercury” for a regional government customer.
* Handled backend integration via APIs, used NATS queues to manage ingestion of datasets with tens of millions of records.
* Optimized MongoDB structure, queries, and indexing — reducing full data update from 7 days to ~2 hours.
* Introduced CI/CD pipelines (bui

Developed a SaaS platform for an Uber partner in Russia to automate payouts to drivers.
Integrated with Uber and Yandex Go APIs to fetch trip data, calculate driver payouts (including variable commissions by region), and generate daily payment sheets.
Implemented two payout models:

* Daily Payouts: Auto-generated based on trips; corrected once Uber released final statements

* Instant Payouts via

* Maintained and fully rebuilt the corporate website and internal information system (AIS) for the student union.
* Handled all aspects: requirements gathering, backend/frontend dev, database design, deployments, and user support.
* Integrated an external student database (Dean’s office), eliminating manual data entry and improving accuracy across hundreds of daily users.
* Implemented internal an

* Designed and implemented a request tracking system to replace phone-based dispatching with structured, prioritized task management
* Automated daily, monthly, and quarterly reporting for management — reducing manual effort to near zero
* Improved dispatcher efficiency by focusing the UI on today's urgent tasks, hiding irrelevant backlog
* Collected user feedback on-site and iterated the architec

* Built the business logic for generating two types of official student orders (expulsion and scholarship assignment) based on academic records.
* Processed raw grade data, session timelines, and student statuses using Java (Hibernate + PostgreSQL).
* Collaborated in a 6-person team using Git.
* Tested the system alongside academic staff: auto-generated results proved more accurate than manual ver