Anton Zalialdinov

Commercial projects:

• System Technologies, Ltd.

  October 18, 2024 - April 28, 2025

  ST Chicago

  Architect, fractional CTO
  • Reduced support costs by designing and implementing a full observability stack based on OpenTelemetry and Jaeger, including both server infrastructure and in-app SDK instrumentation.
  • Led the development team: architected complex backend components, decomposed tasks, unblocked developers, and coordinated cross-functional work.
  • Improved team velocity and predictability by establishing a full Scrum process with estimation, delivery tracking, daily standups, retrospectives, 1:1s, and technical interviews.
  • Redesigned the core exchange protocol of a data aggregation system to improve reliability and maintainability, resulting in a low-cost architecture that is easy to support and extend.
  • RabbitMQ
  • Jaeger
  • Management
  • .NET
  • OpenTelemetry
  • ETL
  • Software acrhitecture

• Oneiro Solutions

  January 10, 2023 - April 10, 2024

  Digital lending platform. Smart contract engine with distributed relational database as persistance layer.

  Senior software engineer, devops
  • Built a CLI tool to deploy a full local Kubernetes cluster with all SaaS services using a single command (Skaffold, Kind, Helm, Docker, Node.js).
  • Migrated the authentication system from Auth0 to Keycloak: developed custom plugins and integrated with the internal Tier 1 bank system (Java, Docker).
  • Set up end-to-end testing: built tooling for writing and running Playwright-based UI tests in an isolated environment (local Kubernetes cluster), debugged execution both locally and on CI.
  • Developed core components in TypeScript and Java: the smart contract engine and an SDK for authoring contracts outside the main platform.
  • Keycloak
  • CockroachDB
  • Kubernetes
  • NodeJS
  • Java
  • GQL
  • Linux
  • Skaffold
  • Kind
  • fp-ts

• A5 Labs

  June 1, 2020 - December 26, 2022

  WPT Global poker platform.

  Senior software engineer, payments architect
  • Developed a core casino component to reliably handle user financial transactions using .NET, MySQL, Redis, Protobuf, OpenTelemetry, and ElasticSearch; implemented distributed locking to ensure balance consistency.
  • Built integrations with third-party payment providers (DevCode, Hexopay, Nuvei), supporting credit cards, bank transfers, and cryptocurrencies.
  • Integrated the payment service with the existing back office system, ensuring consistent transaction history and reporting across partner casino game services via Kafka.
  • Led and conducted technical interviews, expanding the development team to 15 engineers.
  • Reverse-engineered a legacy microservice application with no documentation (and code comments in Chinese), and built a stable Docker setup that became the foundation for all developers.
  • Developed Responsible Gambling services to meet licensing requirements, including user self-exclusion and limits, using Rx.NET and Go.
  • Project Planning
  • Software Solution Architecture
  • Microservices
  • Distributed Systems
  • Project Management
  • Payments
  • Docker Products
  • .NET Core
  • Golang
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Elasticsearch

• United Nations

  October 1, 2019 - June 1, 2020

  eLUNa - translation interface specifically developed for the translation of United Nations documents

  Senior software engineer
  • Integrated automated UI tests into Azure DevOps test plans and release pipelines.
  • Automated and stabilized UI test suites (~400 tests): eliminated flaky tests and reduced execution time using Selenium, .NET, and Azure DevOps.
  • Implemented WHO data import and processing: parsed and uploaded a 500 GB document archive, built ElasticSearch indices, and automated terminology dictionary updates.
  • Azure DevOps
  • Test Automation
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • .NET Framework
  • Selenium
  • Elasticsearch

• Luxoft - UBS

  August 1, 2017 - July 1, 2019

  RIPT - Regulatory Independent Price Verification and Testing.

  Senior software engineer
  • Maintained and enhanced a distributed high-performance computing application based on the Data Synapse Grid platform.
  • Implemented quantitative finance algorithms using Excel templates developed by financial analysts and internal bank libraries.
  • Migrated a desktop WPF application to a modern web service using React, Redux, RxJS, Material UI, TypeScript, and Webpack.
  • Refactored the CI pipeline end-to-end — from build scripts to documentation — and performed application releases in accordance with the bank’s SDLC policies.
  • Conducted tech interviews
  • Reactive Programming
  • Algorithms
  • Quantitative Finance
  • TypeScript
  • .NET Framework
  • React.js
  • F#
  • TeamCity

• System Technologies, Ltd.

  April 1, 2015 - August 1, 2017

  ULS - update and licensing service

  Software engineer -> Senior software engineer
  • Created prototype of scalable backend service for managing customer licenses
  • Develop new and support existing web applications
  • Support and configure continuous integration
  • Support and deploy services based on Azure
  • Microsoft SQL
  • AngularJS
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • JavaScript
  • TeamCity
  • F#
  • MS Orleans
  • Entity Framework
  • Bootstrap

• Neolant

  August 1, 2014 - April 1, 2015

  Various fuel and energetic industry projects

  Software engineer
  • Participated in a large project automating document flow in energy companies.
  • WCF
  • Microsoft SQL
  • WPF
  • Silverlight

• Positron

  June 1, 2013 - August 1, 2014

  Furniture production accountant system

  Software engineer
  • Developed from scratch a manufacturing and accounting system. System controlled all aspects of inventory from manufacturing to a final packaged product.
  • Supported and developed system for furniture production.
  • Winforms
  • Microsoft SQL
  • ASP.NET