Professional Summary
Go backend engineer with 5+ years of commercial experience building production systems across media, payments, telemetry, anti-fraud, and real-time gaming. Comfortable picking up unfamiliar domains quickly, untangling legacy code, and shipping services that remain maintainable long-term. Track record of joining projects mid-flight and getting them to a working, releasable state. Looking for a full-time product role where engineering discipline and long-term product ownership matter.
Technical Skills
Go backend:
Go gRPC gRPC-Web REST WebSockets Microservices Event-driven architecture DDD Clean Architecture Concurrency patterns Design patterns High-load systems
Go frameworks:
Gorilla Gin Echo Beego
Data & messaging:
PostgreSQL GraphQL MongoDB Redis NATS Apache Kafka RabbitMQ ClickHouse Memcached Tarantool Aerospike DynamoDB BoltDB Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana
DevOps & tooling:
Docker Docker Compose Nginx Apache2 GitHub Actions CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Linux Git Git flow GitHub GitLab Jenkins CircleCI Bitbucket Kubernetes Helm Terraform
Other:
Rust WebAssembly (WASM) TypeScript Next.js COM integration Windows/Linux/macOS system APIs Telemetry pipelines Anti-fraud data
Process:
Agile Scrum Kanban Waterfall
Professional Experience
Qfootball
Senior Go Backend Engineer · Remote, 1 year 3 months · 11.2024 — 01.2026
Editorial platform and content factory for a football media product.
Go GraphQL PostgreSQL Next.js External APIs AI integration
- Built the full backend in Go with a GraphQL API and PostgreSQL persistence; delivered the admin UI in Next.js.
- Implemented the end-to-end editorial pipeline: content creation, translation, AI-assisted publishing, and distribution.
- Integrated multiple external data providers for matches, players, leagues, news, and video; adapted the integration twice after upstream API changes.
- Extracted the AI-assisted publishing workflow into a standalone service for independent scaling.
NDA Project — Digital Content Platform
Senior Go Backend Engineer · Remote, 9 months · 03.2024 — 11.2024
Full commerce stack for a high-traffic digital content creator.
Go PostgreSQL Telegram API Stripe Telegram Stars
- Built the Telegram bot storefront, Go backend, and internal support dashboard from scratch.
- Owned the full payment flow across Telegram Stars and Stripe, formalising business logic in parallel with development.
- Delivered the product on schedule; it generated about USD 20,000 in revenue within the first week.
BI.ZONE
Senior Go Backend Engineer · Remote, 1 year 8 months · 06.2022 — 01.2024
Corporate cybersecurity product: cross-platform telemetry agent for enterprise and government clients.
Go gRPC Apache Kafka Windows/Linux/macOS system APIs
- Developed a cross-platform telemetry collection agent for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
- Built and maintained a concurrent task dispatcher with type-based routing, multiple execution strategies, and a worker-pool model.
- Cleared around 80% of accumulated backlog by systematically resolving deferred and urgent product tasks.
- Diagnosed and fixed flaky test failures caused by non-deterministic task ordering with minimal architectural changes.
Gemini Advisory
Senior Go Backend Engineer · Remote, 1 year 2 months · 04.2021 — 06.2022
Anti-fraud and cyber-intelligence platform: darknet data collection for financial security.
Go gRPC Apache Kafka Web scraping Anti-bot evasion
- Built parsers and internal services to collect and normalise data from .onion forums and other darknet sources.
- Adapted parser architecture per source and maintained reliability against unstable, Cloudflare-protected targets.
- Reached 2nd place in individual output among 10 engineers within the first 3 months.
- Improved shared infrastructure and wrote tooling that shortened new developer onboarding.
NexMed
Go Backend Engineer · Remote, 1 year · 04.2020 — 04.2021
Lab medicine startup: reliable data delivery from analyzers to a medical information system.
Go MongoDB COM integration Windows XP Medical device interfaces
- Built a data collection and aggregation platform integrating 8 types of laboratory analyzers.
- Developed a Windows XP background app for COM-port-based analyzer integration with autonomous startup and server sync.
- Implemented a central Go + MongoDB server, admin web UI, license key system, and basic transport encryption.
Entrepreneurial Project
TusslePuffs
Lead Engineer · Remote · 2025 — present
Multiplayer real-time browser game: engineering testbed for network architecture and client prediction.
Go gRPC gRPC-Web Rust WASM rapier3d Three.js
Demo: https://tusslepuffs.chernovteam.dev/
- Built a Go backend with gRPC, a browser client on Three.js via gRPC-Web, and physics plus client prediction in Rust/WASM using rapier3d.
- Focused on client-side prediction and state reconciliation for responsive gameplay under variable latency.
- Use the project as a live testbed for AI-assisted development and architectural iteration.
Education
Incomplete higher education — Applied Informatics in Economics, 2003.
Languages & Availability
English B2 — Advanced; Russian — Native; Spanish A2 — Basic.