Andrei Kucherov

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Address: Point Cook, VIC 3030 (Melbourne)

LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/in/andrei-kucherov-76682713

Education: Bachelor Degree in Applied Mathematics, Udmurtia State University, Russia

Professional Summary

Software Engineer and hands-on Technical Lead with over 20 years of experience in designing, developing, and operating scalable systems, including more than 10 years of building and leading development teams. Recent work covers Java and Spring Boot microservices in a large-scale banking environment, TypeScript and Node.js services on serverless AWS, and my own SaaS product where I owned everything from Terraform infrastructure to working with customers. I prefer to stay hands-on and lead through the work itself: architecture, code reviews, and mentoring.

Expertise includes:

Qualifications

Passed the following AWS certification exams:

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Work Experience

Founder & Engineer at FL101

April 2025 – June 2026

Founded and developed FL101, a scalable no-code SaaS platform for business process automation based on BPMN 2.0 standards.

  • Designed and implemented the full-stack solution using Spring Boot (Java 21), React Admin, and key AWS services (ALB, EC2, RDS PostgreSQL, SQS).
  • Built the entire AWS infrastructure with Terraform: all resources from IAM to ALB are defined as code, so dev, qa and prod environments can be created from scratch, audited, and protected from manually created resources.
  • Kept AWS costs under control by recreating non-production environments only when they are required, and by auto scaling driven by application metrics written to AWS CloudWatch.
  • Used Claude Code in the daily development workflow, and built sample AI workflows with the OpenAI API and PostgreSQL pg_vector, including a support assistant that answers customer requests using a history of previous incidents.
  • Defined the technical vision, system architecture, and development roadmap while personally delivering core platform features.
  • Successfully acquired initial customers in Melbourne, Australia. Project open-sourced upon completion, including the infrastructure code: https://github.com/fl101-io

Senior Consultant Engineer at National Australia Bank (NAB)

March 2023 – February 2025

Served as a Senior Engineer for Business Loans application services in a large-scale banking environment.

  • Implemented a Kubernetes-based microservices application with Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL and Kafka.
  • Implemented schema-flexible data access with PostgreSQL JSONB, using path-based queries over JSONB document fields.
  • Took responsibility in my working group for fixing vulnerabilities found by SonarQube source code analysis during sprints.
  • Investigated production support issues using AWS CloudWatch and Splunk logs to fix possible issues before customers were affected.
  • Acted as Feature Champion, participating in cross-functional meetings to provide early-stage technical estimations and evaluate proposed changes, leading a feature implementation and deploying to production, supporting deployed releases.

Senior Software Engineer at Crystal Delta

April 2022 – February 2023

Served as a Senior Engineer and technical mentor for NAB's serverless AWS platform supporting critical banking products.

  • Developed new features, optimized performance, and provided ongoing support using Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.
  • Applied PostgreSQL JSONB for document-style storage and querying, enabling schema-flexible data access within a relational store.
  • Acted as a technical mentor, sharing best practices in code quality, testing, and deployment processes.
  • Participated in technical discussions and contributed to early estimations and design decisions to enhance platform stability and user experience.

Contracted Software Developer at Infosys ANZ

September 2021 – March 2022

Contributed to the Telstra Digital Managed Services platform, which allows using a REST API to define a fleet of servers profile and create it in AWS or Azure cloud.

  • Enhanced a microservices architecture based on Moleculer.js and Cloud Foundry.
  • Designed and implemented automation improvements across AWS and Azure using Node.js, Python, and Ansible.
  • Acted as a technical mentor, streamlining operational workflows for the broader engineering team.

Contracted Cloud Engineer at Authenticateit Pty Ltd

April 2021 – June 2021

Led the design and delivery of a comprehensive mobile application analytics pipeline.

  • Architected the end-to-end solution including event collection, AWS Kinesis, S3, Athena, Glue ETL (PySpark), and a GraphQL API (Apollo Server + Node.js).
  • Delivered real-time analytics capabilities that enabled data-driven decision making.

Tech Lead and Systems Architect at Authenticateit Pty Ltd (Shping)

August 2012 – April 2021

As Tech Lead and Systems Architect, provided strategic technical leadership for Shping, a digital marketing platform focused on product authenticity and anti-counterfeiting. It was a hands-on role, so DevOps and security activities were part of my responsibility.

  • Built and scaled the engineering team from a single developer to a fully functional unit of in-house and outsourced developers.
  • Directed technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap while implementing Scrum processes, code reviews, sprints, and retrospectives.
  • Designed and led the implementation of AWS cloud infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Docker Swarm, Lambda, CloudFront, etc.) and a fully automated CI/CD pipeline.
  • Handled the company AWS account, prepared and executed migration of the company services from Rackspace cloud to AWS keeping availability and functionality, and configured monitoring using AWS services and Grafana.
  • Configured AWS CloudFront and AWS Shield to protect the services while the company went through ICO.
  • Designed a schema-less (document) data solution on CouchDB, including multi-region synchronization for resilient, distributed data access, and implemented a service that used ElasticSearch as a storage of product prices on the Australian market.
  • Led development of core services using Erlang, Node.js, .NET Core, and blockchain integration (Solidity).
  • Delivered multiple high-impact projects including analytics platform (AWS Athena + PySpark) and product traceability system, significantly reducing cloud costs through optimization.

Contracted Systems Architect at MRC, Izhevsk, Russia

December 2011 – July 2012

Led the architecture and delivery of a real-time market research data visualization system.

  • Defined system architecture and technical requirements, assembled and led a development team.
  • Delivered the full solution using ExtJS 4 (frontend) and Erlang/OTP (backend), successfully presenting to key stakeholders.

Software Engineer and Director of Development Services at KMS Software Company

February 2005 – November 2011

Progressed to Director of Development Services, leading the Core Application Development group for XpressHR™ OnBoarding, an HR onboarding platform (later acquired by SAP).

  • Managed a team that grew from 1 to over 20 engineers, testers, and analysts, establishing recruiting processes, technical interviews, and ongoing training programs.
  • Led the design, development, and delivery of a complex web-based ASP.NET application automating onboarding processes.
  • Introduced structured development processes that significantly improved on-time delivery and product quality.
  • Developed internal productivity tools used across development, implementation, and support teams.