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Valeriia Khanukashvili

Valeriia Khanukashvili

System Analyst

London, GB, E20 1JX
+447308272258
English, Russian

Background


About

About

System Analyst with 5+ years of experience in high-load FinTech product development. Experienced in end-to-end requirements management, technical solution and architecture design, API and data modeling, and development of technical specifications for scalable products and integrations across the full product lifecycle.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • System Analyst, Banco Plata

    May, 2026 - Present

    • Designed and specified an operator admin panel for the KYC platform in Colombia, defining business logic, user workflows, API contracts, and frontend requirements to support internal operations.

    • Restored and expanded technical documentation for existing KYC functionality, reducing knowledge gaps and addressing accumulated technical debt in the system.

    • Improved platform stability by identifying existing issues, defining bug-fix requirements, and collaborating with engineering teams to deliver product improvements.

  • Team Lead & System Analyst, T-Bank Investments (formerly Tinkoff Investments)

    Oct, 2024 - Jun, 20259 months

    • Managed a key research project to build shared platform for automatic investing. The results of this work are now helping us launch new auto-investment products much faster.

    • Designed and specified an automated commission module, including service logic, API contracts, and integration requirements, improving customer experience through real-time portfolio adjustments.

    • Managed the InvestBox backend team, overseeing business and team planning, conducting retrospectives and one-on-one meetings, and organizing business trips. Proactively identified and resolved team bottlenecks, improving processes to prepare for significant team growth and ensuring more predictable feature delivery.

  • System Analyst, T-Bank Investments (formerly Tinkoff Investments)

    Feb, 2019 - Sep, 20245 years 8 months

    • Pioneered the Backend System Analyst role on the main Trading API project. Quickly learned complex topics and built strong processes for requirements specification, reviewing these specifications, and keeping them up-to-date, which greatly cut down on production errors.

    • Worked as the only System Analyst in the backend team for the InvestBox project, the first automatic investment tool in Russia. This involved gathering business needs, defining functional and non-functional requirements, designing architecture with tech leads, and documenting business logic for a product launched from scratch.

    • Designed integration interactions and protocols for backend services, including REST/gRPC-style APIs and service contracts, to support reliable communication between product components.

    • Set up educational meetups about investments domain, which helped the development team understand the business much better.

    • Helped assess other System Analysts across the bank, mentored new System Analysts in the team, and created wiki for quick and easy onboarding of new team members.

Skills

Skills

  • System Analysis

    Requirements elicitation and specification

    Functional requirements

    Non-functional requirements

    API design and specification

    Production issue analysis

  • Architecture and Integration

    API design

    Integration specifications

    Kafka

    REST

    gRPC

    OpenAPI

    Protobuf

    Synchronous and asynchronous integrations

  • Methodologies and Notations

    UML

    C4

    BPMN

    RESTful

    Event Storming

    Docs-as-Code

  • Technologies and Tools

    SQL

    Databases: PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Couchbase

    Languages: Scala, Java, C#, Go, Python (for code reading & analysis)

  • Leadership and Process Management

    Team Leadership and Management

    Backlog prioritization

    Mentoring and Onboarding

    Meeting facilitation

    Process improvement

Education

Education

  • Computer Software Engineering, Master, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"

    Sep, 2017 - Jun, 2019