Summary
Victor Klochkov is a Senior Java Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-load, distributed systems for fintech and e-commerce, currently based in the Netherlands and open to relocation. He specializes in microservices and event-driven architectures, with hands-on expertise in Kafka, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines. Victor has delivered production-grade services at scale for marketplaces and financial platforms, contributed to open-source test automation projects used by major exchanges, and led Java training initiatives that raised team automation capabilities. A pragmatic mentor and full-stack practitioner (React, JS/TS), he combines incident-driven reliability improvements with test-first delivery (JUnit, Testcontainers). Outside work he builds a home automation platform integrating Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT and Node-RED, which informs his practical approach to message-driven designs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Degree System Programming and Applied Mathematics, Specialist Degree System Programming and Applied Mathematics at Kostroma State University named after N.A. Nekrasov (KSU)
Russian, English