Erik Arakelyan
Principal Software Engineer at Highway CJSC
Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Arakelyan is a Principal Software Engineer based in Porto with 8–9 years of experience building scalable FinTech and payment platforms using .NET Core, Microservices, and Clean Architecture. He has driven architectural strategy for a Digital Lending Platform, evolving a modular monolith toward event-driven distributed systems and integrating Temporal and BPMN workflows to tame complex business processes. Known for raising engineering standards—mentoring seniors, formalizing best practices, and boosting test coverage—he also solves systemic performance bottlenecks through caching and query optimization. His background includes secure enterprise identity and transaction systems, resilient messaging with RabbitMQ/MassTransit, and a pragmatic mix of hands-on coding and technical leadership. An electrical engineering graduate, he brings a systems-thinking approach uncommon among web-focused engineers, applying low-level rigor to distributed application design.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Radio Engineering and Communications, Bachelor's degree, Radio Engineering and Communications at National Polytechnic University of Armenia
Github Skills (12)
django7
mongodb7
middleware7
asp-net6
dotnet6
ocelot6
api6
gateway6
asp-net-core6
dotnet-core5
api-gateway5
consul3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
erick20/FhirApi
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
erick20/Supra
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
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