Andrew Zaikin
Senior Software Engineer at Mimir
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAndrew Zaikin is a senior software engineer, founder, and solution architect with 11+ years building cloud-native products across media, fintech, and edtech in the US, Europe, and Australia. He combines system design, applied AI, and scalable backend engineering to deliver reliable, cost-efficient platforms—having shipped 70+ end-to-end projects and led a 20+ engineer team. As founder of Sofile and First Line Outsourcing he pivoted products from B2C to white-label B2B, ran full P&L with margins up to 35%, and secured enterprise integrations as an official Adobe Video Partner. His hands-on work spans Node.js/TypeScript serverless architectures, Python AI pipelines, and AWS services, with notable wins like a 36x faster transcoding pipeline and on-device vector search for a 11k-user media app. Comfortable at the boundary of strategy and execution, he translates executive goals into clear architectures and delivery plans while still writing production code. Based in Lisbon, he blends entrepreneurial rigor with deep technical execution and a knack for turning legacy media archives into discoverable, AI-driven products.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Nanotechnologies, Master's degree, Nanotechnologies at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
English, Russian
Github Skills (104)
skeleton9
video-encoding9
mfe9
protractor9
angular8
salesforce8
api8
lambda8
microfrontend8
starter-kit8
api-client8
webpack8
aws-lambda8
mongoose7
serverless-applications7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BestMood-Tech/Hirefy-api
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:51 PRs, 67 pushes, 48 branches in 4 months
first-line-outsourcing/media-shop-service
Jul 2017 - May 2020
Serverless API for Media shop
Contributions:18 PRs, 66 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years 10 months
apiserverlessaws-lambdashopnodejs
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.