Summary
Anton 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