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About

Full-stack engineer and tech lead who loves platform work. I build software-delivery systems — and, along the way, study how those systems change the work of teams and markets.

Peter Tolkachev
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Skills
ReactTypeScriptNode.jsExpress.jsVue.jsDockerGitMaterial-UIViteJestGraphQLMongoDBPostgreSQLReduxUnleashWebpack
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Strengths

Full command of the stack

Equally confident on backend (Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL) and frontend (React, Vue, TypeScript). I can design a service, take it to production and explain the decisions to the team.

Platform thinking

I design not single features but tools other teams rely on: feature-flag platforms, internal portals, CI/CD. I think about scalability, maintainability and a clean separation of concerns.

Technical leadership

I lead a direction and a team: set standards, run assessments and code review, mentor developers. I can explain complex decisions so people follow them, not just accept them.

Outcome-driven

I measure work by effect, not lines of code: −25% incidents, −30% release time, HSE portal load cut from 30 seconds to 1. I finish what I start — a habit from postgraduate years spent working and studying with no academic leave.

Legacy and migrations

Rewrote projects from JavaScript/Perl to TypeScript, bringing typing, shared standards and containerisation into live products — carefully, without pausing development.

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Professional path

My path into development began at Moscow State University — unexpectedly, out of research. I was processing text for grant applications, tried to automate the routine with code, and it grew into a profession. That is when I realised I wanted not just to use technology but to build it.

From academia I carried something more valuable than any framework: setting my own goals, decomposing large problems, discipline under uncertainty and the habit of finishing. For several years I combined work and study without a single academic leave.

Then came commercial development: a product team at Potok.io, enterprise scale on the HSE portal (40,000+ users) and, finally, fintech. At IT_One I went deep on feature toggles and developed the Unleash platform; at Alfa-Bank I grew from engineer to tech lead of the direction, owning feature-management practice at bank scale.

Today I am drawn to hard engineering problems at the intersection of platforms, release engineering and reliability — where good infrastructure directly affects the speed and calm of whole teams. I am looking for an environment that values both depth and ownership of outcomes.

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Research & writing

How software-delivery tooling — feature flags, gradual rollouts, A/B — changes the way teams make decisions and how power over a product is distributed.

Beyond engineering I run applied research into the digital economy and write at the intersection of technology and the organisation of work. For me this is not abstract theory but a way to design more deliberately: understanding how infrastructure shapes team behaviour makes it easier to build tools people actually want to use.

Research programme · MSU