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Ildar Zaripov

@ildar_zaripov

Backend engineer with 11 years of experience, specializing in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and high-performance services

United Arab Emirates

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What I'm looking for

Opportunity to solve challenging tasks and have a real impact on project

Core Java · Spring Boot · Apache Kafka · Microservices · Event-Driven Architecture · REST · gRPC · Protobuf · Avro

Databases PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Apache Ignite · MS SQL · MySQL · SQLite

Infrastructure & Observability AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, ELB, IAM) · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · Prometheus · Grafana

Engineering Practices Distributed Systems · Clean Architecture · TDD · SOLID · Design Patterns · DDD · Agile / Scrum

Additional Rust (Axum, Tokio) · Go · TypeScript / React / Redux · Android (Java, Kotlin, MVVM)

Open to senior / staff backend roles in product companies, fintech, or deep-tech.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Backend Engineer

Current

ToYou

Oct 2022 - Present (3 years 9 months)

Sole backend engineer for ToYou (Saudi Arabia food delivery), owning a production event-driven chatbot microservice (Java 17/Spring Boot/Kafka). Drive architecture end-to-end; refactored legacy code. Built Transactional Inbox/Outbox for reliable messaging, resolved concurrency bottlenecks, migrated tests to Testcontainers (-25-30% build time), added unit tests for Groovy logic

Java Kafka PostgreSQL Spring Boot Spring Data Spring Security Event Driven Architecture Chatbot Redis Junit Grafana Prometheus

Co-Founder | CTO

Walking Dating

Sep 2021 - Sep 2022 (1 year)

Founder & Solo Engineer, Walking Dating — real-time app for instant meetups (Tinder, but action-oriented). Built entire product solo (backend, Android, infra); ran in production 1+ year. Designed microservices (Spring Boot/Kafka/GridGain/PostgreSQL/Elasticsearch); set up Prometheus/Grafana observability. Wrote Android app (Java/Kotlin, MVVM, Retrofit2/Dagger).

Java Spring Boot Spring Security Spring Data PostgreSQL Redis Kafka Android Elasticsearch Apache Ignite Prometheus Grafana AWS Docker Terraform Microservices

Sofrware Engineer

Mandara Energy

Feb 2019 - Sep 2021 (2 years 7 months)

Software Engineer, Mandara Energy Ltd (London) — oil & energy trading firm across global commodity markets (crude, futures on ICE/NYMEX). Built/maintained low-latency price server ingesting real-time UDP feeds from ICE/NYMEX, normalizing ticks into trader views; latency/errors directly impacted trading. Migrated monolith to microservices, upgraded Spring 2 to Boot

Java Spring Boot Spring Security Spring Data PostgreSQL Redis Kafka Android Elasticsearch Apache Ignite Prometheus Grafana AWS Docker Terraform Microservices

Software Engineer

Sberbank

Sep 2015 - Feb 2019 (3 years 5 months)

Java backend engineer across several projects: built MQTT messenger backend (Java 8, Vert.x, PostgreSQL, multithreading, EventBus); built face-recognition backend with custom Netty/Apache Ignite node protocols and HTML-to-OpenOffice-XML converter; built bank scheduling web app, IE8-compatible, considered for production; also shipped Android client for secure doc sharing

Java Spring Boot React PostgreSQL Redis Kafka

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

MIPT

Master's degree, Applied mathematics and physics

2015 - 2017

MIPT

Bachelor's degree, Applied mathematics and physics

2011 - 2015

Calculus (2.5 years), Discrete mathematics (1 year), linear algebra (1 semester), differential equations (1 year), theory of probability (1 semester), algorithms and data structures, C/C++, general physics (2.5 years), theoretical physics (1.5 years) and etc.