Senior backend engineer · London

Rodion Butkevich

I build the backend systems that move money. Ten years across investment banking, fintech and crypto, from credit risk at Barclays and Deutsche Bank to crypto trading at CoinShares and institutional prime brokerage at Coinbase.

Currently at Coinbase, Institutional Prime Brokerage

Experience

– Present

Coinbase Institutional Prime Brokerage

Senior Software Engineer

  • Leading the design and development of the Prediction Markets integration for Prime institutional clients.
  • Develop and maintain Coinbase's core Transactions and Wallets orchestration service in Go, coordinating multi-step financial workflows across 20+ microservices to reliably process ~1M daily transactions at sub‑100ms p99 latency.
  • Built features for Prime's public-facing REST and Admin APIs, the primary interface for institutional clients to manage portfolios, execute trades and initiate crypto and fiat transfers.
  • Contributed invariant monitoring and reliability improvements to Overseer, a real-time policy engine that evaluates Kafka event streams to detect anomalies, stuck transactions and ledger inconsistencies.
  • Go
  • gRPC
  • REST
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Datadog
  • Databricks
  • Snowflake
  • Claude
  • Cursor

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42Crunch API Security

Senior Software Engineer

  • Enhanced the platform with an AI-driven pipeline for API vulnerability detection and threat protection, securing an additional $10M in company valuation and funding.
  • Designed and released schema-based GraphQL API scanning and auditing services requested by major enterprise clients (Ford, BT, Verizon), driving an additional $300K in annual recurring revenue.
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • gRPC
  • GraphQL
  • OpenAPI
  • Swagger
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • ArgoCD

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CoinShares Digital Asset Investment Management

Senior Software Engineer

  • Led end-to-end delivery of a scalable microservices platform for automated cryptocurrency trading and digital derivatives arbitrage, enabling concurrent market-making and algo trading across major centralised exchanges.
  • Drove key architectural decisions and worked with Engineering, DevOps, Quants and Traders to migrate quantitative trading strategies onto a new high-performance trading engine.
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • GORM
  • Redis
  • NATS
  • gRPC
  • REST
  • WebSocket
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • AWS
  • GitLab

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Deutsche Bank Credit Risk Technology

Software Engineer, AVP

  • Designed and implemented a modern, scalable GraphQL platform to serve as the centralised access point for credit risk data.
  • Refactored client-side stored procedures into optimised GraphQL schemas, improving data retrieval efficiency.
  • Java
  • MySQL
  • GraphQL
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • BDD/TDD
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

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Barclays Investment Bank

Software Engineer, AVP Strategic Credit Risk

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  • Developed a strategic Credit Risk Aggregation application that enabled fast daily risk metric calculations.
  • Designed and implemented API services that let risk managers run complex business queries on in-memory data, manage task execution and run batch aggregation jobs, improving operational efficiency and decision-making.
  • Java
  • Spring
  • Java Streams
  • GridGain (Apache Ignite)
  • JUnit
  • Cucumber
  • Mockito

Big Data Hadoop Engineer Regulatory Reporting

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  • Designed and optimised scalable ETL pipelines on Hadoop, processing and aggregating large-scale risk datasets to meet CCAR regulatory reporting requirements, and implemented credit risk metric calculations (RWAs) for IFRS 9.
  • Java
  • Hadoop
  • Spark
  • HBase

Skills

Languages

  • Go
  • Java

APIs

  • REST
  • gRPC
  • GraphQL
  • WebSocket
  • OpenAPI

Data & messaging

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • NATS
  • Spark
  • Hadoop
  • GridGain

Platform

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • ArgoCD
  • AWS
  • GitLab

Observability

  • Datadog
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

Practices

  • Microservices
  • Event-driven architecture
  • DDD
  • TDD/BDD

Education

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Bayes Business School formerly Cass, London

BSc (Hons) Investment and Financial Risk Management, 2:1

Get in touch

The quickest way to reach me is email. I'm also on LinkedIn.

rodion.butkevich@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/rodionbutkevich