Aliaksei Novikau
Chief Technology Officer · Paperspell
CTO of Paperspell, building a secure, high-reliability document intelligence platform. I lead architecture, data protection, and engineering culture: event-driven Go microservices, OCR/embedding pipelines, large-corpus search, and privacy-first product design. Focus: reliability & observability, performance engineering, and pragmatic delivery without compromising security.
- Event-driven architecture
- Privacy & Security
- Search & Relevance
- Performance
- Team leadership
Experience
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Senior Software Engineer · Rakuten ViberAug 2025 – Present Warsaw, Poland Hybrid
- Software infrastructure, Go, databases, real-time bidding (RTB), system architecture.
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Chief Technology Officer · PaperspellNov 2023 – Present Wrocław, Poland Remote
- Platform architecture, security posture, engineering roadmap.
- Go microservices for ingestion, OCR/embeddings, search.
- Observability, CI/CD, incident response, performance management.
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Golang Senior Developer · Orca SecurityApr 2022 – Feb 2025 Poland Remote
- Go, performance tuning, security, product requirements, solution architecture, databases, Docker, Python.
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Golang Senior Developer · On The Spot DevelopmentApr 2022 – Feb 2025 Warsaw, Poland Remote
- Databases, Docker products.
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Golang Lead Developer · Spiral ScoutMay 2018 – Apr 2022
- Product requirements, RESTful services, PostgreSQL, Docker, Redis, Elasticsearch.
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Java Senior Developer · IBA GroupOct 2015 – Mar 2018
- RESTful services, PostgreSQL, Docker, Redis.
Education
International Graduate School of ICT, Trento
PhD in Informatics (Software Engineering) — completed two years, suspended · 2002–2004
BSUIR — Belarusian State University of Informatics & Radioelectronics
Engineer of Automatic Control Systems · 1994–1999