Summary
Alexander Gutnikov is a Head of Web Development with over a decade of experience building high-traffic web applications and leading teams that power fintech products across Europe. He has steered engineering efforts at neobanks and challenger banking platforms, most recently building a web app for SMB banking at Vivid Money after leading Joompay’s web team. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he started as a C/C++ developer and progressively specialized in scalable JavaScript architectures, React migrations and performance optimization. A frequent conference speaker and mentor, he combines hands-on coding with hiring, process design and observability improvements. Based in Yerevan, he’s known for turning legacy codebases into modern, testable systems and for shipping products used by tens of millions.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)