Status: Open to Work

Robert Khakimov

Software Engineer — Merged with

Over 5 years in IT industry (B2B, B2C). Roughly 70% backend and 30% frontend. Crafting robust solutions from product-idea to production release. Proactively using AI tools since 2023.

Go / MicroservicesJS / NextPython / DjangoAI

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Achievements

ACHIEVEMENT_01

Built backend for Remedy CTF

A global 48-hour cybersecurity competition with $52,000 prize pool serving 2,000+ concurrent participants with zero downtime

Remedy CTF

ACHIEVEMENT_02

Author of Go Web Services

A production-ready Go microservices blueprint — gateway, auth, events, email, and file storage — built on a shared platform package

ACHIEVEMENT_03

JWT Fingerprint in Python Django

Solved a real security gap in JWT auth: protecting the token refresh endpoint while using an advanced fingerprint technique against both XSS & CSRF attacks

ACHIEVEMENT_04

Led Glider IDE backend migration to Go

Replaced a polyglot Node.js/Python stack with a unified Go microservices system — cutting bugs by 40% while increasing feature delivery speed by ~80%

Glider IDE

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

GoGin, net/http, microservices
[Shipped]
PythonDjango, Flask, FastAPI
[Secured]
JavaScriptReact, Next.js, Node.js
[Launched]
SQLPostgreSQL, MariaDB
[Indexed]
NoSQLMongoDB, Redis
[Scaled]

Infrastructure & Tooling

AI ToolsCursor, Claude, GPT, Gemini
[Accelerated]
ContainerizationDocker, Kubernetes
[Deployed]
ProtocolsgRPC, REST, WebSocket, GraphQL
[Connected]
Message QueuesRedis, Kafka, RabbitMQ
[Queued]
MonitoringGrafana, Prometheus
[Monitored]

Experience

Hexens

3 yrs 3 mos

May 2023 — Present

Software Engineer

CURRENT

Built backend for $52,000 CTF, increased feature delivery speed by 80% and delivered full-stack across multiple product domains — Go, Python, and Next.js

Go / microservicespythonjs / nextai tools

Designed and shipped the Python/Flask backend for Remedy CTF: participant workflows, scoring, integrations, admin tooling, and production scaling for a global 48-hour event.
Led the Glider IDE backend rewrite to Go under live production constraints, designing service boundaries, migration path, and rollout; open-sourced the architecture blueprint.
Co-designed Glider Token Risk API's storage layer: benchmarked PostgreSQL against ClickHouse at 200M-row scale, then shipped a CoalescingMergeTree schema with a sparse-update pattern that keeps bulk column rewrites cheap.
Owned authentication and applied reliability patterns across products: JWT security, gateway middleware, Redis-based rate limiting, transactional outbox, Redis Streams, workers, and load balancing.

DevsData

1 yr

Mar 2023 — Mar 2024

Backend Developer

Reduced the full candidate processing cycle by 30% by automating bulk HR department workflows in Python.

pythonseleniumautomation

Designed a reusable job application scraper/parser template in Python/Selenium, cutting integration setup time by 2–3× for future targets.

Hook Production

1 yr 1 mo

Feb 2022 — Mar 2023

Junior Backend Developer

Built a REST API for a delivery service mobile app, directly enabling entry into a new market segment.

python / djangodockerpostgresql

Integrated a Telegram notification bot delivering real-time status updates across 3+ business teams, replacing manual status checks.
Introduced unit testing practices to existing projects, reducing the development-stage bug escape rate by 40%.

Projects

LAB_DEV_01

LAUNCHED

Go Web Services

User auth, file uploads, API gateway, email service and event tracking and a shared platform package. Reusable suite of microservices for your backend apps. Goal: drop in any service, deploy, and go

goauthmicroservices

LAB_DEV_02

AVAILABLE

HeadMod

A Chrome extension for injecting and modifying HTTP request/response headers and cookies. Profiles, URL scoping, and per-rule toggles for day-to-day debugging — fully local, with no traffic sent off your machine

chrome extensionVibecodedevtools

LAB_DEV_03

FINISHED

Remedy CTF

Company:

Largest Web3 hacking contest to date — zero downtime under adversarial load. 2,000+ of concurrent participants; built with Flask and Python. Based on CTFd

python / flaskCTFdredis

Contact

Status: Open to Work

Got an interesting challenge?Let's talk.

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Robert Khakimov

Achievements

Built backend for Remedy CTF

Author of Go Web Services

JWT Fingerprint in Python Django

Led Glider IDE backend migration to Go

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

Infrastructure & Tooling

Experience

Hexens

Software Engineer

Related in Projects

DevsData

Backend Developer

Hook Production

Junior Backend Developer

Projects

Go Web Services

HeadMod

Remedy CTF

Contact

Got an interesting challenge?Let's talk.