Aliaksei Novikau
Senior Software Engineer at Rakuten Viber
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolAliaksei Novikau is a Senior Software Engineer and Go lead with eight years of experience building RESTful microservices and distributed systems across startups and product teams. He has progressed from Java Spring Boot backend work to becoming a devoted Go developer, leading Golang efforts at multiple companies and currently contributing at Rakuten Viber while serving as CTO of Paperspell. His hands-on stack includes Docker, Redis and NLP experimentation with IBM Watson/OpenNLP/UIMA, and he brings practical curiosity in blockchain and Ethereum despite only introductory experience. Known for translating academic rigor (PhD-level software engineering background) into production-grade services, he often bridges research-minded thinking with pragmatic engineering. Colleagues value his combination of technical leadership and deep backend craft, especially in designing scalable microservice architectures. Based in Warsaw, he blends European research roots with a startup mindset and a preference for Go-driven, observable systems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in informatics (Software Engineering) finished 2 years suspended Computer Science, PhD in informatics (Software Engineering) finished 2 years suspended Computer Science at International Graduate School of Information and Communication Technologies, Trento, ItaliaEngineer of automatic control systems, Engineer of automatic control systems at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Romanian
Github Skills (11)
temporal-workflow8
load-balancing4
go4
go-build4
service-discovery3
microservices3
google-cloud3
pre-commit-hook2
golang2
faas1
functions-as-a-service1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
guntenbein/temporal_microservices
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Temporal workflow for orchestration, service discovery, load balancing of go microservices
Contributions:20 commits, 23 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
goload-balancingmicroservicesservice-discoverytemporal-workflow
guntenbein/experiments
Dec 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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