Nikita Leshchev
Head Of Product Engineering at Paybis
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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Top SchoolNikita Leshchev is an experienced engineering manager and system architect with a decade of hands-on backend and distributed-systems expertise, currently leading architecture, mobile, and payments at Paybis. He designs and decomposes complex, high-load systems (CQRS, Event Storming) and has driven PCI/DSS-compliant payment solutions including ApplePay/GooglePay, card payouts, and AML/KYC integrations. Comfortable across PHP, Symfony, Golang, Kafka, Docker, AWS and relational/NoSQL databases, he blends deep technical implementation with hiring, career ladder creation, and architecture-to-product alignment. Notably, he has repeatedly turned monoliths into scalable microservices and introduced practical automations (n8n, Slack/GitLab bots) to speed delivery and reduce toil. Ambitious about CTO-level leadership, he pairs hands-on coding instincts with proven team and process-building skills.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Диплом специалиста по инженерной специальности, Управление и информатика в технических системах, Диплом специалиста по инженерной специальности, Управление и информатика в технических системах at Moscow State University of Transport (MIIT)Head of Department Program, Engineering/Industrial Management, Head of Department Program, Engineering/Industrial Management at STRATOPLAN MANAGEMENT SCHOOL
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (76)
bundle10
php-framework10
symfony-bundle10
symfony10
enqueue10
php10
sdk9
api9
swagger-php9
api-documentation9
crud8
openapi8
swagger8
json-schema8
wsse8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HEKET313/health-check
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 24 commits, 7 pushes in 1 month
Amethyst-web/amethyst-ws
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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