Natalia Kursheva

• Owned high-load Go microservices (Search, Pricing); Architecture Committee member. • Migrated PHP monolith to Go: 2x latency reduction, handling 1,000 RPS. • Boosted sales by ~7% via new partner integrations. • Optimized 'Smart Cache', raising hit rate to 56.6% and cutting operational costs. • Reduced production errors by 93% (2,000→140) and support requests by 3.5x. • Established observability standards (Grafana/metrics). • Mentored 4 Senior Engineers; conducted 20+ technical interviews.

• Built 2 integration services handling 1,000 RPS under high load. • Raised code quality: expanded unit test coverage from 42% to 71%. • Enhanced data privacy via encryption and 100% secret migration to Vault. • Developed microservices from scratch for the Trust & Safety domain. • Managed integrations with real-estate and national registry data providers. • Owned security requirements and trained the team on secure coding. • Partnered cross-functionally with product, security, and external partners.

• Built the Go competence center's microservices ecosystem, including API Gateway and shared modules reused across all projects. • Developed services for automated resource reporting and internal management using Go. • Established development infrastructure and CI/CD (GoCD, Gitea, databases) with DevOps. • Managed full release cycles: from business feature decomposition to delivery estimation. • Drove team expansion by conducting technical interviews and mentoring junior to mid-level engineers.

Key Responsibilities & Achievements: • Implemented a Cache Pre-warming pattern triggered by user authorization, enabling it to handle 1000+ RPS with sub-millisecond latency for data retrieval. • Developed an integration module with the partner’s API to retrieve Bonus-Malus coefficient data.

Developed services, supported and modernized software. Tech Stack: C# 7.0, REST API, MS SQL, MongoDB, Rabbit MQ, nUnit/ xUnit, CI/CD, ASP.NET MVC 5, MySQL

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering