Alexey Boltava
Product Lead at Tinkoff
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Boltava is a Product Lead and seasoned backend engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web services, currently owning internal search at Tinkoff. He rose through engineering and leadership ranks at Tinkoff—spanning junior Scala developer to Head of AI and department head—combining hands-on Scala/Go development with systems architecture and team building. His work focuses on high-throughput backend systems for finance and investment products, with deep familiarity in Kafka, PostgreSQL, k8s and functional Scala patterns. Academically strong (MS in Information Systems & HCI from HSE and a CS BS from NSU), he pairs rigorous technical grounding with product-minded planning and backlog stewardship. An active member of a developer collective (Russian Hack Team) and an avid self-learner, he brings both mentorship and a bias for shipping pragmatic, well-architected solutions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Systems and Human Computer Interaction, 9.23/10, Master's degree, Information Systems and Human Computer Interaction, 9.23/10 at Higher School of EconomicsBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4.9/5, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4.9/5 at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
Русский, English
Stackoverflow
161reputation
28kreached
8answers
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Github Skills (22)
open-api-v38
calendars8
http-service7
jaxb6
dir6
linux6
scala6
java6
rss6
polymorphism6
http-server5
javascript5
dsl4
swagger4
akka-http4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
good-move/15201_boltava
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 96 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
good-move/FindyBot
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:38 commits, 6 PRs, 45 pushes in 22 days
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