# Asman Malikov

**Senior backend engineer & technical lead. Distributed systems, payments, AI-native.**

Reliable distributed platforms, AI automations, developer tools, quality systems, and AI-ready knowledge bases for teams that need leverage.

## Summary

Asman Malikov is an AI-native backend/platform engineer and technical lead. He builds reliable platforms, AI automations, developer tools, quality systems, and AI-ready knowledge bases. Core stack: Go, Python, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka, Redis. He currently leads a backend team of four on a B2B payments platform.

## Work experience

### Backend Team Lead / Senior Backend Engineer (Go / Python) — Korvax

*2022-07 — Present · Cyprus (remote)*

Backend architecture and technical leadership for a B2B payments platform — distributed microservices, event-driven integrations, and a real-time analytics stack. Korvax delivers custom digital products and business systems for clients across multiple industries, including financial services.

- Led a team of 4 backend engineers — owned architecture direction, set code-review and testing standards, and mentored the team to ship independently.
- Architected billing, notification, and crypto-payment microservices in Go (Gin) and Python (FastAPI), using gRPC for synchronous calls and Kafka for event streaming between services.
- Made money-critical flows safe under retries and duplicate delivery with idempotency keys and a producer outbox → consumer inbox dedup pattern — eliminating double-processing of payment events.
- Designed a dedicated ClickHouse reporting service that ingests payment events via Kafka, isolating analytics from the transactional PostgreSQL path and cutting report generation from ~30s to under 2s as volume grew past 1M+ events/day.
- Optimized PostgreSQL and ClickHouse for analytical workloads — connection pooling, partitioning, and pre-aggregation — keeping reporting fast as data grew.
- Instrumented production observability with OpenTelemetry tracing, Prometheus metrics, and Grafana SLO dashboards, cutting incident MTTR from ~20 to ~5 minutes.
- Hardened services for reliability — graceful shutdown with in-flight draining, end-to-end context propagation/cancellation, and Redis for cache-aside, task queues, distributed locks, and rate limiting.

Stack: Go, Gin, gRPC, Python, FastAPI, Kafka, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana

### Backend Developer — Amit agency

*2020-02 — 2022-10 · Remote*

Built custom web and backend solutions for SMB clients, focusing on CRM systems, third-party integrations, and business process automation. Amit agency is a software development agency building custom web platforms, CRM systems, and SaaS integrations for small and medium-sized businesses.

- Migrated a monolithic e-commerce platform to microservices (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis) incrementally with an expand/contract approach — each service proven in production before the next cut, keeping the platform at ~100% uptime throughout.
- Built a custom CMS for the e-commerce platform hodoor.com, powering catalog and content for international expansion.
- Designed an automated translation pipeline for 30+ languages on Celery task queues and Yandex Cloud Translate — localizing content continuously with human spot-checks instead of manual translation.
- Set up CI/CD on GitLab (Docker + Swarm) and Sentry error monitoring — turning manual deploys into repeatable releases and surfacing production errors before users reported them.
- Built ETL pipelines to migrate data from legacy systems without downtime.
- Designed authentication and UGC modules (chats, reviews) with real-time delivery over WebSocket.
- Configured edge infrastructure with Traefik, Cloudflare, and Yandex CDN for fast global delivery.

Stack: Python, FastAPI, Celery, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Docker Swarm, GitLab CI, Sentry, Traefik, Cloudflare, WebSocket

## Education

- ITMO University — BSc, Programming in computer systems (2016–2020)

## Skills & technologies

Go, Python, gRPC, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka, Redis, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Idempotency & Outbox pattern, System Design, Observability (OpenTelemetry), Kubernetes, CI/CD, Technical Leadership, AI-assisted engineering, LLM integrations, RAG pipelines

## Contact

- Email: asman@asmanmalikov.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malikov73
- Web: https://asmanmalikov.com/en/