Coffee & Meet #15: End-to-End Payment Processing in Python Backend wih Elvin Mirzazada

Processing payments isn't just about integrating an API—it’s about handling failure modes, ensuring idempotency, managing ledger consistency, and designing systems that scale reliably.For Coffee & Meet #15, we’re sitting down with Elvin Mirzazada, Software Engineer at Bolt (formerly Software Engineer at Union Fintech focusing on Scalable Systems & Fintech). Elvin will walk us through the practical architecture, technical trade-offs, and backend patterns behind building robust, production-grade payment pipelines using Python.

👤 About the Speaker: Elvin Mirzazada is currently a Software Engineer at Bolt, building high-scale distributed backend systems. With a solid foundation in scalable systems and fintech from his time at Union Fintech, Elvin brings deep, hands-on experience in architecting bulletproof payment infrastructure.