Peter Kovgan

Transforming old infrastructure to the new cloud based one.

Working as an architect and developer on security and fraud prevention issues under the sharp guillotine of performance and system availability requirements. Domains: banking, security, online transactions, fraud risk assessment. Performing interviews, proposing designs, eliminating pain points.

Designed and developed a scalable “new generation architecture” for the back-end processing of currency trading data, based on open source technologies: Akka/Kafka/Cassandra plus a package of monitoring tools , based on influx techs. Designed a scala/akka based streaming core/framework, used in multiple applications. Conduct presentations about Java 8, Java GC, Scala, Cassandra, Multithreading, Akka,Kafka, etc...

Leading role in performance and scale issues resolution. Complex migration to a new technology stack. Deep involvement in trading engine performance solutions based on Java multi-threading. Backend solutions for data storage. Frontend solutions for customer support. Hands-on and head-in mover and doer.

Created a server infrastructure in a cool startup that deals with test environments optimization and product support tools. First version of the configuration trees comparison. Tooling and approaches definition.

Server side development of core components for a revolutionary new platform for small businesses. "You click a button in Eclipse and have your customer's business running" - that was the motto. A lot of business process modelling innovations, based on BPML/BPMN and code generation techniques, combined with the living/deep knowledge of server-side ORM and DI frameworks.

Various monitoring projects connected to various java application servers and middle-ware, applications servers internals-level monitoring. Monitoring agents development. Transactions management and monitoring. Very cute learning path. Liked it A LOT!!! Real hacking!

CMS, known Internet Sites, Games development in VB, ASP and Java