Andrey Zharikov is a senior Back End Developer with over a decade of experience building high-performance, scalable backend systems—primarily in Ruby on Rails and Node.js—for FinTech and EdTech products serving millions of users. He pairs hands-on engineering with technical leadership, having led cross-functional teams, served as CTO, and delivered measurable ROI such as halving cloud costs while handling 5x traffic and cutting DB CPU from 100% to 10% under peak load. Andrey excels at designing well-documented, thoroughly tested APIs and large-scale analytics on ClickHouse, coordinating multi-team efforts to manage terabytes of data. He is driven by complex technical challenges and mentoring teams to raise engineering standards, with a pragmatic focus on business impact. Based in Bishkek, he combines systems-level thinking with a builder’s passion for growing services from scratch into production-grade platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Диплом специалиста по инженерной специальности Разработка программного обеспечения, Диплом специалиста по инженерной специальности Разработка программного обеспечения at Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI)
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 7 months
exchangecryptocurrencygembitcoinbank
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.