Portfolio — 2026 Berlin · Remote
Senior Backend & Systems Engineer · 15+ years

Kirill
Zhuchkov

Backend systems I design, develop, deploy, and maintain — from event-sourced services to connected-car SDKs.

DesignDevelopDeployMaintain
Capabilities — 02 End to end

Design. Develop. Deploy. Maintain.

01

Design

System & API architecture
  • Event-sourced & microservice design
  • Domain modeling
  • GraphQL / REST contracts
  • Architecting for scale & reliability
02

Develop

High-performance services & SDKs
  • Go, Rails, Python
  • TypeScript · React · Next.js · Node
  • C++ / Go SDKs
  • TDD & automated testing
03

Deploy

Repeatable infrastructure
  • AWS · GCP
  • Docker · Kubernetes
  • Terraform · Helm
  • CI/CD — GitHub Actions
04

Maintain

Reliability in production
  • SRE & observability
  • Monitoring & alerting
  • Scaling & incident response
  • Production reliability
Selected clients — 03 Across industries

Trusted by teams building at scale.

  • NVIDIA
    Game-testing infrastructure
  • HERE Technologies
    Connected-car navigation SDKs
  • retailmediatools
    Retail-media platform
  • Deliveroo
    Vendor & operations platforms
  • Delivery Hero
    Go microservice ecosystem
  • Home24
    Performance optimization
Experience — 04 15+ years

From code to production.

retailmediatools

2022 – Present

Built an enterprise campaign-management platform from scratch as sole engineer, serving 200+ retailers and brands.

Next.js · React · TypeScript · Go

Deliveroo

2021 – 2022

Built partner tooling used by KFC & Burger King, cutting API integration from 2 weeks to 1 day.

Go · TypeScript · React

Delivery Hero

2021

Led a team of 7 running a 10+ service ecosystem on hybrid AWS/GCP across 5 global markets.

Go · Terraform · Kubernetes · Helm · AWS · GCP

HERE Technologies

2014 – 2020

Engineered C++ navigation SDKs shipped in over 5 million vehicles for BMW, Audi, VW, and Porsche.

C++ · Go

NVIDIA

2010 – 2012

Built and hardened web systems for the Game Testing Lab, focused on performance and quality.

PHP · JavaScript
Education
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
M.Sc.-equivalent, Information Systems
Information Security · Cryptography
Selected work / 01 Live product

DialHard

dialhard.com

A live VoIP calling product. Event-sourced session orchestration treats a “call” as a composable session — PSTN voice (Twilio) and STT captions as capabilities, not fixed features, with cross-session context persistence.

363
Paying customers
66%
Repeat purchase
100K
Call minutes
Design · Develop · Deploy · Maintain
DialHard — dialhard.com — live
dialhard.com — live Browser / desktop
Selected work / 02 Live product

Drakkar Maps

drakkar.one

Embeddable, privacy-first maps for any website — added in two lines, no API keys, no billing console. Vector tiles and location services without handing user data to ad networks.

// GDPR-ready, European CDN — sub-10KB script with on-demand tile loading. No cookie banner needed.

30s
To embed
<10KB
Script size
0
Trackers
Design · Develop · Deploy · Maintain
Drakkar Maps — drakkar.one — live
drakkar.one — live Embeddable widget
Selected work / 03 Stealth · R&D

Virgil

Design-system generator for AI-built apps

Takes a plain-language brief and produces a full design system — tokens, typography scale, surfaces, components. An agentic pipeline built on MCP, streaming, and Claude Skills.

// Sonnet generates the system; Haiku gates the dev / iteration loop at ~1/25th the cost.

~1/25×
Iteration-loop cost
MCP
Streaming · Skills
Design · Develop · Deploy
Virgil — Virgil — generated design system
Virgil — generated design system Internal R&D
Selected work / 04 Open source · MIT

go-shopify-graphql

github.com/r0busta

A Go GraphQL client for the Shopify Admin API, MIT-licensed. Forks exceeding stars is the tell — active downstream reuse, not just a bookmark.

// ~17 public repos for Shopify automation & tooling — model library, Next.js app starters, reporting & data-replication.

36★
Stars
38
Forks
~17
Public repos
Develop · Maintain · Open source
go-shopify-graphql — go-shopify-graphql — README
go-shopify-graphql — README github.com/r0busta
Contact — 09

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Backend & systems engineering — from architecture through production. Design, develop, deploy, maintain.

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