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Zhandos Baurzhan

@zhandosbaurzhan

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Experienced Tech Lead and Senior Backend Engineer with proven success.

Kazakhstan

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for a role that offers opportunities for leadership, innovation, and collaboration in a dynamic environment.

As a Tech Lead and Senior Backend Engineer with over 6 years of experience, I have successfully built high-performance distributed systems and event-driven architectures in the fintech and digital banking sectors. My expertise lies in backend optimization, microservices, and Kafka-based asynchronous pipelines, which has allowed me to drive significant improvements in system performance and reliability.

Throughout my career, I have led agile teams, made critical architecture decisions, and mentored engineers to foster a culture of continuous improvement. At Kaspi.kz, I reduced payment latency by 90% during peak loads and designed an in-house Task Engine to orchestrate complex workflows. My role as Development Team Lead involved directing cross-functional teams and enhancing delivery velocity through Agile practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Technical Lead

Current

Kaspi.kz

Sep 2024 - Present (9 months)

Reduced payment latency by 90% under peak load. Designed and built an in-house Task Engine for orchestrating complex workflows, enabling fault-tolerant parallel processing with Kafka and improving reliability.

Kafka Microservices Distributed Systems Performance Optimization System Design

Development Team Lead

Kaspi.kz

Nov 2023 - Present (1 year 7 months)

Directed cross-functional teams across backend, frontend, and DevOps. Fostered Agile practices and increased team delivery velocity.

Agile Methodologies Team Leadership Cross Functional Team Leadership DevOps Backend Development

Senior Software Engineer

Kaspi.kz

Feb 2023 - Present (2 years 4 months)

Developed scalable notification service using Kafka + MongoDB with sharding. Enabled 10M+ record search in Elasticsearch with <100ms latency.

Kafka MongoDB Elasticsearch Scalability Backend Development

Development Team Lead

AO Altyn Bank

Mar 2021 - Present (4 years 3 months)

Led 20+ engineers and facilitated alignment between tech and business. Built backend services for mission-critical banking operations and implemented CI/CD pipelines.

Team Leadership CI CD Backend Development System Monitoring

Senior Software Engineer

AO Altyn Bank

Feb 2020 - Present (5 years 4 months)

Built backend services for mission-critical banking operations. Implemented CI/CD pipelines and improved system monitoring.

Backend Development CI CD System Monitoring Banking Operations Java

Software Engineer

InFin-IT Solution

Jun 2019 - Present (6 years)

Developed secure backend services for new digital banking platform. Optimized performance of high-load operations.

Backend Development Digital Banking Performance Optimization Security Java

Software Engineer

greetgo!

Jan 2019 - Present (6 years 5 months)

Optimized performance of high-load operations. Worked on gas distribution mapping and source localization algorithms.

Performance Optimization Algorithms Backend Development Java System Design

Internship Trainee

BAM

Jul 2018 - Present (6 years 11 months)

Worked on gas distribution mapping and source localization algorithms. Gained practical experience in a professional engineering environment.

Algorithms Data Mapping Localization Engineering Principles Research

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

International IT University

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

Completed a comprehensive curriculum focused on computer science principles and practices. Gained foundational knowledge in programming, algorithms, and data structures.