Ruben Meliksetyan
Ruben Meliksetyan

Senior Backend Engineer

Open to offers · Member since 12 Oct 2026
Location
Yerevan, Armenia
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time, Part Time, Freelance
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a senior backend engineer with nearly eight years of experience building scalable, event-driven systems for fintech, iGaming, media, and e-commerce products. My primary stack is Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, AWS, PHP, and Laravel.

I design and operate backend platforms from architecture through production support. My experience includes serverless microservices, REST and GraphQL APIs, real-time WebSocket applications, distributed messaging, database design, and cloud deployments.

I have extensive domain experience in payments, wallets, KYC, transaction processing, and game-provider integrations. I build resilient asynchronous workflows using retries, idempotency, failure isolation, queues, and monitoring to protect data consistency during external-provider failures.

I have led the design and delivery of cloud-native systems with dozens of microservices on AWS. I am experienced with AWS Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, Docker, CI/CD, observability, and incident debugging.

I also bring practical production ML experience. I have fine-tuned an Arabic BERT moderation model, exported it to ONNX, and deployed in-process inference through NestJS without requiring a Python service in the request path.

I value reliability, security, and maintainable engineering practices. I have led incident investigations, root-caused production memory failures, conducted service audits, reviewed code, and created remediation roadmaps for critical operational risks.

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Monitoring

Experience

Career history

Senior Backend Engineer VUZ

I own backend services for a live and immersive video platform, including real-time interaction widgets built with NestJS, WebSockets, AWS ECS, Kafka, Redis, and MySQL.

I resolved a recurring Node.js heap out-of-memory production failure by identifying an unbounded database query and adding query limits and runtime memory safeguards. I also led reliability and security auditing that identified 13 critical risks, and delivered a prioritized remediation roadmap. Additionally, I built a multilingual content-moderation service using a fine-tuned Arabic BERT model served through ONNX Runtime in NestJS, including data preparation, model export, S3 artifacts, and Dockerized deployment.

Software Engineer WeWinTech

Built payment-gateway and third-party game-provider integrations for a real-money gambling platform using Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, MySQL, and Redis-backed workers.

Designed asynchronous payment workflows with retry handling, idempotency keys, and failure isolation to ensure provider outages did not leave player balances inconsistent. Developed wallet and transaction services for deposits, withdrawals, and game rounds, and introduced Sentry, Prometheus, and Grafana monitoring.

Software Engineer (Node.js) EPAM Anywhere

Led the end-to-end design and development of a cloud-native platform consisting of approximately 40 to 50 microservices. Owned architecture, implementation, testing, and deployment across the platform.

Defined service boundaries and Kafka-based event-driven communication, designed DynamoDB models around access patterns, and built AWS Lambda services with GraphQL APIs. Used AWS SAM for repeatable multi-environment infrastructure deployments and contributed through code reviews and engineering standards.

Software Engineer WorldCom Finance

Developed backend services and product features for a fintech platform using PHP, Node.js, MySQL, and Redis.

Improved platform stability and scalability, investigated production issues, and participated in code reviews within a fast-paced financial technology environment.

Full Stack Developer (Freelance, part-time) Upwork

Worked on PHP-based e-commerce applications using Docker-based microservices, including service design, implementation, troubleshooting, and integration work.

Built a crypto gambling platform with Laravel, Sumsub KYC onboarding, Coinbase Commerce payments, and queue-based asynchronous processing for payments and payouts.

Backend Developer Cascade Realty

Developed backend functionality for web and mobile applications in the real estate domain.

Created REST APIs, designed databases, and supported application deployment.

Full Stack Web Developer Lightin Studio

Worked as a full stack web developer on web application features and integrations.

Developed REST APIs, designed databases, supported deployments, and contributed to integration processes.

Backend Developer Iguan Systems

Developed backend web projects using Laravel and CodeIgniter.

Also worked on frontend components and interfaces using jQuery, HTML, and CSS.

Education

Learning history

Iguan Systems LLC

Web Development Training, Web Development

Completed web development training in Yerevan, Armenia.

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