Mikhail Backend
Staff Backend Engineer at Upwork
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolMikhail Backend is a Lead Java Developer and senior backend engineer based in Dubai with 13 years of professional experience and a 15+ year trajectory across Java/Kotlin, Go and some Rust. He designs and operates low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems—ranging from sub-millisecond HFT engines at Deutsche Bank to real-time ML inference and ranking platforms for the largest US job/freelancer marketplace. Comfortable across the data stack, he has built RTB auction engines, Spark/Databricks pipelines, data lakes and production ML infra on AWS. Known for JVM performance tuning, lock-free concurrency patterns and pragmatic system design, he bridges quant teams and production engineering to turn complex models into reliable, low-latency services. Though primarily backend-focused, his early full-stack work informs strong product-minded delivery and cross-team collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Automated Data Processing and Control Systems, Master’s Degree Computer Science, Automated Data Processing and Control Systems at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
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Github Skills (53)
ios10
windows10
finance10
cross-platform10
material-design10
android10
mobile10
web-framework10
macos10
dart10
flutter10
mobile-development9
app-framework9
skia9
fuchsia9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yetanothercoder/ultimate-stress
Apr 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:46 commits in 1 year 5 months
yetanothercoder/financisto168
Mar 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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