Summary
Yauheni Suhakou is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in payments, having built payment gateways, bank integrations (Barclays, Valitor, EMS) and SaaS processing platforms from prototype to production. He is fluent in Ruby and JavaScript, prefers the “Rails Way” for early-stage products, and is migrating toward Elixir, Kotlin and Swift for modern backend and macOS/iOS work. His background spans fintech (including time at Solarisbank), startups and freelance projects, giving him both deep integration expertise and product-oriented delivery skills. A community builder and author, he co-founded Minsk.rb, created the Belarus Golang User Group and wrote “Productive Programmer” to help developers avoid burnout. Based in Berlin, he blends pragmatic full-stack engineering with proven experience negotiating complex bank/acquirer protocols at scale.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English Computer Science, English Computer Science at Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University
Engineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at The Institute of Lifelong Education of Belarusian State University
English, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Japanese, French