Anton Smolkov
Senior Backend Developer Tech Lead at Alfa-Bank
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAnton Smolkov is a Senior Backend Developer and Tech Lead with 10 years of experience building and operating high-performance, cloud-native systems, currently shaping backend architecture at Alfa-Bank. He blends deep DevOps roots with hands-on backend engineering—expertise that spans ASP.NET Core, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and data engineering—to drive measurable performance and scalability improvements. Anton has a track record of modernizing legacy concurrency models (replacing Akka.NET with TPL/Channels), enabling horizontal scalability, and speeding developer feedback loops by making complex systems runnable locally for robust integration testing. He previously led DevOps and DB teams, migrating large infrastructures to Kubernetes and Postgres while designing observability and backup solutions at scale. Known for an objective, empathetic approach to tooling and technical debates, he focuses on practical impact and developer productivity. Based in St. Petersburg, he combines systems-level troubleshooting with architecture design to deliver reliable, testable platforms for industrial IoT and banking domains.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
specialist Computer Software Engineering, specialist Computer Software Engineering at Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
176reputation
38kreached
5answers
0questions
Github Skills (198)
container-management10
nuget10
network-visualization10
broker10
rancher10
exporter10
sink10
netcore10
orchestration10
dotnet10
iot-framework10
linux-distro10
subnet10
kubernetes10
net10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
AntonSmolkov/HandyPoshScripts
Dec 2018 - Jun 2022
HandyPoshScripts
Contributions:2 releases, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 6 months
javascriptazerothcore
AnSmol/Ansible
May 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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.