Ex. Senior Backend Engineer at Financial Corporation Otkritie
Florida, United States
Daria Zolotukhina
Council Member
Daria Zolotukhina is a Backend Engineer based in Miami, USA, with over five years of experience building high-load distributed systems for enterprise platforms in fintech and aviation sectors. She specializes in Java ecosystem development, microservices architecture, and backend engineering for complex production systems.
Daria Zolotukhina currently works as a Senior Backend Engineer at Financial Corporation Otkritie, where she served from January 2022 to April 2024. During this time, she designed and implemented a complete investment module for small and medium-sized enterprise clients within a high-load online banking platform, handling complex financial operations and high-volume transactions. She built microservices from scratch and integrated them into the existing monolithic architecture while designing Kafka-based event-driven integrations with third-party systems. She optimized PostgreSQL queries to improve performance under load and defined service contracts to coordinate integrations across development teams. Her responsibilities included conducting code reviews to ensure code quality and developing scalable backend components capable of handling enterprise-level transaction volumes.
Before joining Otkritie, Daria Zolotukhina worked as a Backend Engineer at Sberbank from April 2021 to January 2022. She developed backend services for an internal high-load enterprise banking platform used by corporate employees. She participated in the transition from monolithic architecture to microservices, refactored legacy code to improve performance, and contributed to architecture discussions. She also maintained testing environments and supported the development team through the modernization process.
Daria Zolotukhina currently works as a Senior Backend Engineer at Financial Corporation Otkritie, where she served from January 2022 to April 2024. During this time, she designed and implemented a complete investment module for small and medium-sized enterprise clients within a high-load online banking platform, handling complex financial operations and high-volume transactions. She built microservices from scratch and integrated them into the existing monolithic architecture while designing Kafka-based event-driven integrations with third-party systems. She optimized PostgreSQL queries to improve performance under load and defined service contracts to coordinate integrations across development teams. Her responsibilities included conducting code reviews to ensure code quality and developing scalable backend components capable of handling enterprise-level transaction volumes.
Before joining Otkritie, Daria Zolotukhina worked as a Backend Engineer at Sberbank from April 2021 to January 2022. She developed backend services for an internal high-load enterprise banking platform used by corporate employees. She participated in the transition from monolithic architecture to microservices, refactored legacy code to improve performance, and contributed to architecture discussions. She also maintained testing environments and supported the development team through the modernization process.
Prior to her work at Sberbank, Daria Zolotukhina served as a Software Engineer at T-Systems from January 2020 to April 2021. She developed both backend and frontend components for airport management systems deployed at major international airports. She designed and extended application architecture to support international airport deployments, implemented new user interface features, and maintained production systems. She improved the performance and stability of web services while developing new functionality for the aviation project.
Daria Zolotukhina has established herself as a recognized professional in the technology community through multiple channels. She serves as a judge in international technology competitions and has authored technical publications contributing to the broader engineering community. She received both Globee and Titan Awards in recognition of her professional achievements. She authored a technical book on database performance optimization and serves as a peer reviewer of scientific articles, contributing her expertise to advancing technical knowledge in her field.
Daria Zolotukhina has established herself as a recognized professional in the technology community through multiple channels. She serves as a judge in international technology competitions and has authored technical publications contributing to the broader engineering community. She received both Globee and Titan Awards in recognition of her professional achievements. She authored a technical book on database performance optimization and serves as a peer reviewer of scientific articles, contributing her expertise to advancing technical knowledge in her field.