Summary
Peter Salnikov is a Head of Software Architecture with 13+ years in hands-on engineering and over 20 years in IT, blending deep Java/Python development roots with a decade of DevOps and cloud infrastructure leadership. He has repeatedly delivered complex, production-grade systems—leading multiple internet banking and SaaS Track & Trace go-lives—and built 100% Infrastructure-as-Code platforms across AWS, GCP, OCI and regional clouds. A Kubernetes and CI/CD practitioner, he has reduced deployment failures by orders of magnitude, implemented zero-downtime release strategies and introduced SRE playbooks for global teams. He routinely designs cost-effective, secure architectures and has managed cross-functional remote teams up to 50 people while accumulating 7,500+ freelance hours and 30+ Upwork projects. Fluent in technical English (C2) and trained as a psychoanalyst, he brings rare strengths in people dynamics and systems thinking to technical leadership.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English Courses at British Council
English as Foreign Language Certificate, English as Foreign Language Certificate at Kyrsy MID (English Courses after Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor at Moscow English Club VivaLingua
Master’s Degree Information Security, Master’s Degree Information Security at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Mathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Physics at Lyceum 1523
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at International School of Group Psychoanalysis COIRAG, ECPP, EGATIN
English, Russian