Edem Topuzov

Backend Team Lead

Backend Team Lead focused on dependable services and measurable outcomes.

Designing for scale and reliability, and keeping the codebase readable and maintainable.

I make sure the team ships features that improve margin, not just add infrastructure cost.

Developers get what they need to succeed: good tooling, helpful reviews, and processes that respect their time.

Leadership & Process: Team mentoring, design reviews, SLOs/SLAs, on-call hygiene, incident reviews, roadmap & scope
Backend & Data: Ruby (Rails), GraphQL, REST, background jobs, Postgres, Redis, performance tuning
Architecture: Modular monoliths & services, eventing, caching, idempotency, schema evolution, integration patterns
DevEx & Quality: RSpec/Minitest, CI/CD, code review standards, refactoring, code style
Ops & Cloud: Nginx, Docker, basic AWS/Heroku/Oracle, observability basics (metrics/logs/traces), cost-aware design
Frontend (supporting): HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Slim/HAML

Backend Lead: Hodl Hodl (11.2021 – present)
Lead backend for fintech P2P, B2P, and B2B platforms (exchange and lending). Design reviews, reliability guardrails, and developer mentoring.
Ruby on Rails Developer: Molinos (05.2019 – 11.2021)
Design and development of new Rails applications. Support and development of existing applications. Unit testing. Deploy. Integrations with front-end, mobile apps. Telegram bots.
Ruby on Rails Teacher: Good Programmer (05.2019 – present)
Mentoring. Code review. Webinars. Help and clarification. Answers to students' questions. LMS development.
Ruby on Rails Developer: Goody (02.2019 – 05.2019)
Designed, developed and tested new widget features for customers. Backend develop, deploy, debugging and integration with mobile app. Bringing a startup into production
Lead Engineer: Production Department, Projects and Estimates Expertise Department (railway building). The experience of 10 years.
My stress resistance, responsibility, focus on results, ability to team work with a large amount of information helped to ensure that our organization met the targets on time.
And by the way, I know exactly what Rails are.