Summary
Sergei Kaznakhovskii is a Lead Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building backend systems and shipping production-ready microservices, currently driving engineering at PrizePicks in Denver. He specializes in turning concepts into launched products, with deep expertise in Go, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Redis, and Kafka, and a strong track record in e-commerce and ERP integrations. Comfortable in small to mid-sized teams, he emphasizes CI/CD, testing, design patterns and process improvements to boost delivery quality. His career spans senior roles across startups and scale-ups, where he repeatedly led backend efforts from architecture through deployment. Trained as a physicist-computer scientist, he brings analytical rigor to practical engineering and a collaborative approach that elevates team communication and operational maturity.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Physics and Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University)
Russian, English