Ildar Karymov

📍 Barcelona, Spain ✉️ ildar@kary.mov 🐙 tomakado 🇷🇺🇬🇧

T-shaped Software Engineer with experience in E-Commerce, FinTech, Automotive and AI.

Work experience

Software Engineer in the fastest growing fintech in Mexico

Plata, DevX (Developer Experience) team • hybrid fulltime • Oct 2025 — now • Barcelona, Spain

  • Built internal developer CLI (access provisioning, service scaffolding, local env setup) and a collaborative code editor for technical interviews, eliminating dependency on third-party tools
  • Developed AI agents for automated code review and routine task automation; drove adoption through release announcements, demos, and a developer experience digest
  • Go
  • Kubernetes
  • GitLab CI
  • Kafka
  • Temporal
  • TUI (BubbleTea)
  • UX/UI

Plata, Cards & Accounts team • hybrid fulltime • Mar 2023 — Oct 2025 • Barcelona, Spain

  • Developed and maintained user-facing services for mobile apps, ensuring reliability and responsiveness
  • Optimized CI pipelines and streamlined development tooling, improving build times and team productivity
  • Conducted technical interviews for junior to senior candidates, shaping hiring decisions
  • Go
  • gRPC
  • GitLab CI
  • Kubernetes
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kafka

Software Engineer in automotive EV company

Arrival, Elements/Technology team • hybrid fulltime • Aug 2022 — Feb 2023 • Tbilisi, Georgia

I was responsible for maintenance of diagnostics and software update services. Go and Python were used to develop services running directly on the vehicle.
  • pprof
  • gRPC
  • Go
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Linux

Arrival, Service Platform team • hybrid fulltime • Mar 2021 — Jul 2022 • Saint-Petersburg, Russia

  • Improved development processes (CI, code quality, DevOps) and mentored a junior Go developer to mid-level
  • Designed vehicle charging infrastructure: resource planning algorithms, third-party operator integration with industrial protocols, and payment system
  • Go
  • Clojure
  • PostgreSQL
  • Datomic
  • MongoDB
  • Linux
  • RabbitMQ
  • Nginx

Software Engineer in the largest e-commerce platform in Russia

OZON Tech, Seller API team • hybrid fulltime • Dec 2020 — Feb 2021 • Saint-Petersburg, Russia

As I backend developer, I was working on internal services providing tools for sellers who earn on OZON marketplace. Such includes seller dashboard, seller API, tariffication, delivery scheduling, etc. I used Go, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes to develop those services.
  • Go
  • gRPC
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kubernetes

Software Engineer in no-code NLP platform

chatme.ai, Platform team • hybrid fulltime • Jul 2019 — Dec 2020 • Novosibirsk; Saint-Petersburg, Russia

I was working at chatme.ai as Python & Golang Backend Developer. I’ve implemented various microservices using aiohttp, PostgresSQL, MongoDB and Docker in a core product team. This team is focused on development of modern chat bot platform with NLU and pluggable services support.
  • Go
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

Software Engineer in oil & gas industry

МФ Технологии, Monitoring team • onsite fulltime • Mar 2019 — Jul 2019 • Novosibirsk, Russia

At MPh Tech Ltd. I was working as NodeJS & Golang Backend Developer. My responsibilities included development of different employee management APIs with NodeJS, Typescript, ExpressJS, MongoDB and MSSQL. The company’s clients are large oil-producing companies.
  • MSSQL
  • Go
  • NodeJS (TypeScript)
  • MongoDB