Summary
Nikolay Bryzgalov is a Technical Lead and backend engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating high-performance, distributed systems across startups and large organizations. He specializes in Go, Python and PHP and builds resilient, scalable services backed by PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis and Elasticsearch, with solid DevOps experience on Kubernetes, Docker and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP). His career spans product- and performance-driven roles in Berlin, Moscow, Prague and the Bay Area, showing an ability to lead teams through rapid growth and complex migrations. Curious by nature, he pairs hands-on coding with system-level thinking to reduce latency and improve observability using Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog. Notably, he progressed from senior engineer to technical lead at Upvest, demonstrating both deep technical craft and people leadership in fintech-scale environments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Сибирский федеральный университет
Russian, English