Summary
Nikita Burlakov is a Senior Backend Developer based in Barcelona with 11 years of experience designing and scaling reliable, high-performance web systems. He has deep hands-on experience in large refactorings, migrations and improving legacy platforms, having driven major improvements in CRM, billing and compliance services. At ANNA Money he built fraud-detection and sanctions-screening algorithms that cut false positives fivefold and scaled evidence-collection and monitoring for a fintech product. Previously at СКБ Контур he reduced Elasticsearch load from saturation to ~10% CPU, introduced event-driven consistency fixes, and led migrations with zero customer-facing downtime while mentoring multiple engineers. He combines algorithmic rigor—he was an ACM ICPC World Finalist in 2013 and 2014—with a pragmatic focus on operational excellence and measurable business impact. Outside of work he publishes technical notes at burlakov.io, reflecting a continual curiosity about performance and algorithms.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software engineering, Master's degree, Software engineering at Ижевский Государственный Технический Университет (ИжГТУ)