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Taras Volchenko

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Backend engineer at Erz Game who architected an MMO server for thousands of concurrent players, with gameplay-specific spatial algorithms and low-latency networking.

Georgia
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At Erz Game, I’m architecting and developing a real-time MMO server from scratch, designed to support thousands of concurrent players at approximately 10 ms latency. I’ve implemented gameplay systems including flood-fill territory calculation and Conflict-Based Search for multi-agent pathfinding.

I also designed a custom binary network serialization format and implemented WebSocket communication and authentication for the MMO. The work combines server architecture with gameplay logic, networking, and scalability decisions.

At Bujetor, I contributed to the architecture of an AI-powered FoodTech platform and developed Python services and APIs in a microservices environment. I built an authorization service, developed analytics and data-storage services integrating with Google BigQuery, and connected backend services with ML/AI models.

Across earlier roles, I developed backends for FinTech payments, conversational AI, data-science tooling, AdTech, and other products. My work has included a Redis-to-Kafka messaging migration, AWS Lambda integrations, and secure data-gathering tools.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

EG
Current

Tech Lead, Backend Engineer

Erz Game

May 2025 - Present (1 year 4 months)

Made foundational technology decisions for a new MMO game server, including technology-stack selection, overall system architecture, and scalability strategy. Architected and developed the backend server from scratch for a real-time MMO workload, designed to support thousands of concurrent players at approximately 10 ms latency.

BU

Senior Python Developer

Bujetor

Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 (1 year)

Contributed to architecture for an AI-powered FoodTech platform, participating in decisions around service decomposition, inter-service contracts, and infrastructure design. Designed and implemented backend services in Python / FastAPI within a microservices environment.

BD

Fullstack Developer

Bright Data

Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year)

Contributed to a production web-scraping tool for extracting data from dynamic, JavaScript-heavy websites. Worked with Chromium-based browser automation and Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) to control page rendering, inspect network activity, diagnose page lifecycle issues, and improve scraping reliability.

JA

Backend Developer

Just AI

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year)

Implemented backend solutions for dialogue bots, integrating an existing NLP/NLU engine into a working production system. Led a messaging-infrastructure migration from Redis to Kafka to improve data resiliency and throughput.

EP

Data Engineer

Epam

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year)

Implemented internal tools intended to make data gathering and storage more effective and secure for data-science users. Built backend tooling around secure data-handling workflows rather than user-facing product functionality.

IP

API Developer

IPONWEB

Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year)

Developed and extended APIs and user-facing functionality for systems used by advertising companies. Implemented backend functionality with Python / Django in an AdTech environment.

EE

Full-stack / Backend Developer

Earlier Experience

Jan 2011 - Jan 2018 (7 years)

Worked across several product types, including a video-on-demand platform, task-management system, musicians’ social network, and online poker services. Delivered features end to end across backend and full-stack responsibilities.

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