nelakov - Overview

Go Backend Engineer

5+ years in fintech · ex-QA Automation Lead

🟢 Open to Go backend roles — Remote / Relocation  ·  📍 Tbilisi, Georgia (GMT+4)

Engineer who built QA from the ground up — then crossed over to write the code. 5+ years in fintech: investments, KYC, payments, origination. I've seen production systems from both sides — what breaks, why, and how to build them so they don't.

Tech Stack

Backend

Data

Infrastructure

Projects

Backend & Systems

🔬 rangiffler — Microservices travel social network: gRPC, Kafka, OAuth 2.0, MySQL, React frontend — with a full E2E test framework

🎓 thank-go-practice — Go from the ground up: fundamentals, concurrency, standard library

💬 tcp-chat-java — TCP client-server chat: custom message serialization, history archiving, command protocol

Test Automation & QA

🏦 demo-alfabank-test-framework — Multi-layer (UI · API · DB) test automation for a fintech payment web app: Selenide, REST-Assured, JUnit 5, Allure, Docker Compose

🎬 demo-autotest-project-for-vivid — UI test automation for a fintech web app: Selenide, JUnit 5, Selenoid, Jenkins, Allure TestOps, Jira, Telegram

📱 demo-wikipedia-test-mobile-framework — Mobile test automation: Appium, BrowserStack / emulator / real device, strategy-pattern drivers

🧪 demo-spring-boot-api-test — Spring Boot REST API + JUnit 5 / REST Assured test suite, Swagger, custom Allure reporting

🔗 demo-interactive-test-api-framework — API test framework: REST Assured, JSON Schema validation (v2/v3), Jenkins CI/CD, Telegram