Eugene Merkoulov Senior Backend Engineer Contact me:Odesa, Ukraine +380632700628 eugenefromtheinternet@gmail.com @eugenex1LinksCV LinkedIn GitHub Stack Overflow Leetcode Personal blogKey skillsTechnical Leadership Mentorship Software design Microservice architectures Automation Monitoring Fault tolerance OOP NodeJS / TypeScript TDD DDD RabbitMQ MongoDB MySQL Docker Web3 Some of my talks
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About meI design & program highly maintainable systems for scale and long run. Advocate for standards, infrastructure & automation, testing & documentation, fault tolerance, monitoring & reporting. My recent engineering experience has been in crypto AML/KYC and fintech services. Before that have done e-commerce & social networks, content management systems, ad & marketing platforms, and video conferencing systems. Former startup CTO, architect & technical lead with proven success in building and mentoring teams, leading architecture, and managing projects, these days I prefer to be more involved in hands-on technology & code. Always ready to tackle hard problems, share experience and build professional teams. ExperienceSenior Backend EngineerGlobal LedgerMARCH 2025 — NOVEMBER 2025 Odesa, remoteGlobal Ledger is a Swiss based blockchain analytics company providing real time AML compliance and KYC services, transaction monitoring and investigation support for crypto businesses, financial institutions, regulators and law enforcement. I was responsible for an automatic funds tracing toolset, working on design, testing, delivery & monitoring.
Senior Backend EngineerGuestyMARCH 2022 — DECEMBER 2023 Odesa, remoteGuesty is a property management software for short-term rentals. I was part of the team working on the internal Channel Manager product which maintains API connections to property management providers. Features implemented:
Senior Backend Engineer / Tech LeadNoosaAUGUST 2020 — MARCH 2022 Odesa, remoteNoosa is a "credit as a service" API-based company; enabling brands and retailers to offer their own branded on-demand free credit services at the point of purchase. There I have:
Senior Backend Engineer / Tech LeadAller Media A/SJUNE 2013 — FEBRUARY 2020 Odesa, onsite Oslo, onsiteAller Media is the leading publisher of magazines and weeklies in Denmark and the Nordic countries. Good old PHP days. There I have worked on a some of internal & public Aller's products. My responsibilities there were:
DBTV.noDagbladet's own video streaming service. It has lived through three iterations, starting from Brightcove-hosted solution, then YouTube-backed one, and finally JW Player. I was responsible for most of the backend design, an statistics & analytics system, coordintaed content & data migration b/w media service providers. LommelegenA healthcare consulting service which lets its customers to have a conversation with a medical professional of their choice via a video call. Included integrations with authentication & payment processing services, implemented sensitive data management, and had monitoring, reporting, notifications infrastracture. SE.NOOnline TV programme for Norwegian TV. LabradorAller's internal content management system. PlussA flock of microservices implementing the company's premium subscription business and few other tasks. Consists of an OAuth service, a user session service & a subscription/payment service, everything made in Go. I was briefly involved in the latter one. TegneserieInternal CMS for online & print media aiming to automate scheduling, publishing and printing.
CTOAdCenterNOVEMBER 2011 — JUNE 2013 Odesa, onsiteAn advertisement aggregator & control center. Allows customers to run campaigns in multiple social networks at the same time, offers a suite of compaign management & automation tools, optimizes targeting & budgets for efficiency or economy while mitigating & abstracing away the complexity of underlying platforms. There I have:
CTOClickkyAPRIL 2012 — MAY 2013 Odesa, onsiteA social media & performance marketing service which was serving up to 25M ad impressions daily. I joined the team as a backend developer and later was promoted to architect, and finally to CTO. There I have:
CTO / FounderHydra2010 Odesa, onsiteMy discontinued startup company. Online video conferencing software based on the Red5 media server. API in PHP, RTMP media server in Java & front end in JavaScript & Flash/ActionScript. Freelancing2009 — 2011 Odesa, remoteMy early days of web development, when I singlehandedly have implemented few projects. LogomagA community of child's psychologists and speech therapists. Featured a forum, an online store, and a built-in online video conferencing solution. I did full cycle of design, development and support. BioinstinctA wellness community, features a social network, blogging platform, online store and some unique social & informational functionality. Prima TelecomAn internet connection benchmarking software, similar to the one found at speedtest.net, for a VoIP company. Client app was written in ActionScript3, multithreaded server written in Python. |