Aarchitecture with soul
Aleksei Zorin

Hi.

I'm Alex.

I love when complex becomes simple. Found myself in backend development and architecture. Since 2007 on one vector: development — systems — architecture.

I'm alive. I hear you. I can help with a heavy system, a team deadlock, or an idea with no one to build it. No upfront promises — just an individual approach and a deep dive into your specific situation.

Telegram — @alex_zrn

I reply myself within a day

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Aleksei Zorin

Solution Architect

15+ years in IT · high-load · 80+ services · 50+ engineers

Backend Engineering·Message Brokers·Structured & Unstructured Storage·Deployment Strategies·Event Sourcing·Observability

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  1. 200714 y.o.

    First PHP book

    Dmitry Koterov's already outdated book on PHP 4 at the time. Picked up the rest from online docs.

  2. 201118 y.o.

    First internship in IT

    Invited without a resume.

  3. 201320 y.o.

    First IT job

    Krasnodar, web-dev studio. First office, first deadlines.

  4. 201421 y.o.

    First public code

    Created a GitHub account.

  5. 201522 y.o.

    First serious experience

    3 years as Backend Engineer in an outsource team — CRM for Shell, online schools, promos for L’Oréal, Pandora, Sber, bots, diaries. Learned to build backend I'm not ashamed to ship.

  6. 201724 y.o.

    First year outside the usual context

    A year in the Philippines. Different country, different pace.

  7. 201825 y.o.

    First experience with microservices

    Backend Engineer, Prague. Big legacy monolith on yii1. Integrations, queues, decomposition. Saw where it breaks.

  8. 201926 y.o.

    First lines of Go

    Tried Go — love at first sight.

  9. 202027 y.o.

    First management experience

    Since then built 4 teams.

  10. 202330 y.o.

    First architect role

    Solution Architect with a fast track to Lead — took ownership of a complex system and built a team.

  11. Dec 202330 y.o.

    First AI subscription

    Paid for ChatGPT Plus on Dec 26.

  12. 202431 y.o.

    First real achievement

    A crisis project became a turning point.

  13. 202532 y.o.

    First scale — 50+ engineers

    Lead Architect in FinTech. 80+ services, 7 teams, 50+ engineers, 20+ integrations, ADR, reviews, standards, dev committee, architect team.

  14. 202633 y.o.

    What's next?

I realized the skills I've built — design, simplification, alignment — work anywhere in IT. After me things became clearer, simpler, more efficient, not more complex.

But the further I go, the sharper the questions of meaning become. I no longer want to do IT for IT's sake, RPS and complexity for complexity's sake. I want to do things with meaning.

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