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Maxim Kasakin
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Experience

Where I've built things

Nearly 7 years of backend and distributed systems - across AI platforms, fintech and Web3. Each role below links to a case study of the system I built there.

  1. Software Architect / Tech Lead

    Feb 2025 - Present

    Kineiro LLC · Kazakhstan

    B2B SaaS platform for AI content automation and cross-platform publishing.

    • Designed and led the platform from scratch; grew the engineering team from 2 to 10, owned technical direction, and worked directly with sales and client success.
    • Built a custom workflow engine (first on Deno, then rebuilt on NestJS): content jobs run as DAGs - topological sort, parallel levels - with a Postgres step cache that resumes from the last completed step and a cross-process job-claim lock for idempotency.
    • Orchestrated 20 models across text, image, video and audio with automatic failover; shipped ~1,200 idempotent publications/day to 8 social channels.
    • Event-driven architecture on RabbitMQ (guaranteed delivery, dead-letter queues, exponential backoff, graceful degradation); unified MongoDB + SQL data layer with end-to-end observability.

    Stack: Go · NestJS · RabbitMQ · Redis · MongoDB · SQL · PostgreSQL · Kubernetes · Docker

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  2. Web Development Team Lead

    Feb 2023 - Feb 2025

    NGINE-LTD · Geneva, CH

    Blockchain wallet ecosystem (international).

    • Designed a new microservice backend with a read-through cache in front of all node reads: cut direct node requests ~60% and p95 balance reads from ~600ms to ~150ms (4× faster).
    • Extended a Cosmos SDK (Go) chain with 2 custom modules: an on-chain exchange and conversion of the native token into AI-usage tokens.
    • Led a team of 3; introduced code review and CI/CD, cutting the release cycle from ~2 weeks to ~3 days.
    • Integrated an in-wallet AI assistant for common operations, removing ~30% of routine support requests.

    Stack: Go · Cosmos SDK · NestJS · gRPC · MongoDB · React · Electron · Kubernetes

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  3. Technical Lead

    Sep 2021 - Oct 2022

    Club1111 · Los Angeles, US

    NFT marketplace and Web3 platform.

    • Designed the initial frontend architecture (Next.js, TypeScript) and implemented NFT minting, including batched multi-mint.
    • Built the integration layer to a Wyvern-Protocol on-chain exchange (the protocol OpenSea ran on) - placing bids and transferring assets.
    • Optimized Web3 transaction handling and mentored junior developers on Web3 best practices.

    Stack: React · Next.js · TypeScript · Solidity · Node.js · NestJS · Docker

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