Summary
Sergei Argutin is a senior software engineer and architect with 13 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native microservice systems, currently driving technical ownership of an inbound platform at Zalando in Berlin. He specializes in Java and Spring-based backends, PostgreSQL, message brokers (Nakadi, RabbitMQ), Kubernetes, and IaC, and has repeatedly delivered low-latency, high-throughput payment and gaming systems. As a hands-on technical lead he has designed resilient architectures handling thousands of requests per second, led CI/CD and observability efforts, and mentored engineering teams. Notably, he architected an instant-payments system that enabled sub-15-second P2P transfers and expanded into QR-based merchant payments, demonstrating a knack for turning product ideas into scalable, production-ready services.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Software Engineering at academy named after vasilevsky a.m.