Berlin, Germany

Madiyar Kaskabayev

Software Engineer — Backend & Distributed Systems

About Me

I'm a backend engineer building scalable distributed systems. I like Go, event-driven architectures, and keeping complexity in check. I prefer boring tech that actually survives production.

Experience

Software Engineer

Jan 2026 – Present

Wolt / DoorDash · Berlin, Germany

  • Currently building backend services for courier earnings.
  • Working with Scala and Go to build event-driven, reliable, and fast services.

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2021 – Dec 2025

HelloFresh · Berlin, Germany

  • Spent four years building pricing and loyalty systems at scale.
  • Handled millions of orders, shipped major cross-team initiatives, and kept latency low under heavy load.
  • Served as a lead on-call engineer, fixing issues before they blew up.

Software Engineer

Sep 2018 – Oct 2021

Kolesa Group · Almaty, Kazakhstan

  • Worked on the biggest classifieds platform in Central Asia.
  • Scaled out core APIs, improved search performance, and modernized CI/CD pipelines.

Software Engineer

Jul 2016 – Jul 2018

Prosports.kz · Almaty, Kazakhstan

  • Started my career building full-stack sports news platforms, APIs, and telegram bots for hundreds of thousands of monthly users.

Tech I work with

Languages

Go, Python, Java, PHP

Distributed Systems

Kafka, RabbitMQ, gRPC, Event-Driven Architecture, CDC (Debezium)

Cloud & Infra

AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, ArgoCD

Databases & Tooling

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Bazel, GitHub Actions

Education

Master of Science in Engineering and CS

International IT University · Almaty, Kazakhstan

Bachelor of Science in Engineering and CS

Suleyman Demirel University · Almaty, Kazakhstan