Summary
Aleksey Zarikhin is a backend developer with over a decade of professional experience and eight years focused on production systems, specializing in PHP and Go. He has built and maintained high-load e-commerce and fintech services, leading integrations with payment providers, public API design, microservices, and financial reconciliation pipelines. Aleksey has performed team-lead and mentoring duties, owning requirements breakdown, code review, and delivery quality across cross-functional teams. His technical toolkit includes Symfony components, Phalcon, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch and other core backend infrastructure, applied to both legacy refactors and new feature development. Based in St. Petersburg, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with practical operational awareness from working on financial reporting and accounting systems. An understated strength is his steady progression from freelance full-stack work to senior backend roles, showing adaptability across project sizes and domains.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information systems in business and economics, test, Master's degree, Information systems in business and economics, test at Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University