Legacy: Facade First, Storage Later

Alexey Kashin owns architecture and reliability in T-Bank's profile platform, yet his path began with Basic and Turbo Pascal at school in Krasnoufimsk. A teacher-training university added databases, networks, and psychology; his first system administration job exposed the limits of infrastructure without automation.

In document-management consulting, Alexey connected ISO 9000 to business processes, became a project lead, and launched a Java direction to replace costly licenses. Staff augmentation brought him into a bank, where a credit-pipeline outage became a lesson in concurrency, operations, and mentoring.

At T-Bank, Alexey joined the retirement of Siebel and built the company-profile domain. The team first offered a stable API, then created a store, bidirectional replication, and consistency checks. Customers did not notice the migration, while shared services later supported other domains and an international launch.

His reliability role grew from availability goals, transparent incidents, and root-cause removal—the logic of quality management. Alexey combines IC and management work, delegating outcomes while retaining technical context. AI helps with broad migrations but needs verification; domain knowledge, economics, and reading sustain growth.