Summary
Evgeny Kulikov is a Helsinki-based software developer with 12 years of experience building full-stack, high-load web systems and developer-friendly tooling. He has shipped production services and led teams at companies including Smartly.io, Unity Technologies, and Topface, with hands-on expertise in Node.js, PHP, SQL, search infrastructure and distributed data stores. Evgeny champions simple, maintainable code, proactive testing and rollout strategies, and deliberate management of technical debt while keeping the user and QA at the center of decisions. He combines individual contributor craft—writing web crawlers, search optimizations and product features—with leadership that fosters organic team interactions. Comfortable across backend, client-side and ops concerns, he often anticipates deployment and quality pitfalls before they surface. A pragmatic problem-solver, he brings startup velocity and production-grade rigor to scaling systems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian