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Golang Software Engineer

Nikita
Zakharenko.

4+ years building backend services in Go. At Wildberries, I develop high-load systems for e-commerce and logistics, with a focus on ClickHouse analytics and PostgreSQL performance.

I own the full cycle: architecture, APIs, releases and production support. Previously built city-wide alerting systems and founded a subscription VPN service.

  • Currently at Wildberries
  • Belgrade, Serbia · Remote

Experience

Wildberries

2024 – Present

Golang Software Engineer

Design and delivery of high-load services for e-commerce and supply-chain operations. Full release cycle and production support across 7 projects.

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  • ClickHouse analytics: 10B+ rows, ~1 TB, API response ≤300 ms.
  • Optimized a 350 GB PostgreSQL table with recurring deadlocks.
  • Designed and built 2 high-load services from scratch, including complex business logic.
  • REST and gRPC APIs, RBAC and WebSocket notifications for an employee support platform.
  • Rolled out Jaeger and Pyroscope; built Grafana dashboards and CSAT, RSA and SLA metrics.
  • PostgreSQL-to-ClickHouse migrations. Integrated a proprietary LLM into an employee support chat.
  • 24/7 incident response, code reviews, unit and integration tests. Worked directly with product owners and C-level stakeholders.

Go · PostgreSQL · ClickHouse · Kafka · gRPC

NorkinVPN

2024 – 2025

Founder & Backend Engineer

Founded a subscription VPN service and grew it to ~200 paying customers. Managed 3 servers handling ~4.5 TB of daily traffic.

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  • ~200 paying customers. 3 servers. ~4.5 TB of traffic per day.
  • Owned engineering, infrastructure, subscription payments, customer support and legal matters.
  • Built the service on VLESS and 3x-ui; managed the product from first commit to day-to-day operations.

VLESS · 3x-ui · Infrastructure

Safe Region

2022 – 2024

Backend Developer

Developed the core alerting stack for city-wide notification systems: synchronous alerts, SIP terminal grouping and a modular VoIP integration layer.

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  • Built core alerting services with Go and Node.js.
  • SIP terminal grouping and emergency notifications.
  • Configured test and production environments. Wrote unit and e2e tests and introduced TDD on a project with no QA.

Go · Node.js · PostgreSQL · MongoDB

About

Go engineer focused on backend services, database performance and observability.

Stack

  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • ClickHouse
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • gRPC
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • GitLab CI
  • Grafana
  • Jaeger
  • Prometheus

Languages

  • Russiannative
  • EnglishB1+
  • GermanB2

Education

Russian University of Transport

2022–2026

BSc, Computer Science

School 21

2022–2024

Software Development, Go

Russian University of Transport

2024–2025

AI & Machine Learning, retraining

Get in touch.

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Belgrade, Serbia · Remote