Summary
Valerii Kulikov is a Java Technical Lead with 10 years of experience building and operating cloud-native microservices for large-scale billing and banking systems. He leads teams of architects and engineers, orchestrating CI/CD for releases across ~70 microservices while driving reliability with Kubernetes, Kafka, Vault and resilient service patterns. Valerii pairs hands-on development—payment integrations (PayPal, Barzahlen), SOAP/REST bank connectors, DB work across SQL and NoSQL, and automated end-to-end testing—with people leadership and LeSS-informed delivery. He has delivered cross-domain projects from facial recognition and smart-city integrations to runtime-extensible banking processes, showing a knack for pragmatic design and automation. Based in Saint Petersburg, he often blends backend Java expertise with lightweight front-end and scripting solutions, and has experience creating tooling such as a Maven plugin for ASN.1 data handling.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Baltic State Technical University "VOENMEH" named after D.F. Ustinov