Experience
the roles and the miles behind them
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Lead Software Engineer
Bemo — TON liquid-staking protocol Jul 2024 — Present · Remote
Lead Software Engineer
- Lead backend of a liquid-staking product with $100M TVL and 20k+ users in a team of 8; own architecture and key technical decisions.
- Designed and shipped 10+ smart contracts to production with Python tooling for testing and deployment automation.
- Consolidated 30+ Telegram bots into one autoscaled Kubernetes service, cutting idle memory footprint by ~15 GB.
- Recovered user rewards lost to a legacy accrual bug by recomputing balances from on-chain transaction history.
- Run production launches and incident response on Grafana / Prometheus / Loki, holding 99% uptime.
- Mentor 3 engineers with individual growth plans; drive code-review and release discipline.
Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Taskiq), PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, FluxCD, GitLab CI
Python Backend Developer
My Path — AI product May 2023 — May 2024 · Remote
Python Backend Developer
- Built backend for AI integrations with multiple LLMs: request routing, response handling, pipeline optimization.
- Engineered a video-analysis ETL pipeline over ~1,900 hours of footage, raising data-processing throughput by 50%.
- Delivered a conference video-recording service; cut recurring errors by 35% with tests and validation.
Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Celery), PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, GitLab CI
Python Backend Developer
Kortechs Apr 2022 — Apr 2023 · On-site
Python Backend Developer
- Architected a reservation platform integrating TimeKit, SendGrid, and Stripe payments.
- Replaced TimeKit with a custom scheduler, removing a third-party dependency and licensing cost.
- Cut CI/CD pipeline time by 75% (20 min to 5 min).
- Built a Slack bot for real-time GitLab pipeline monitoring.
Python (Django, DRF, Celery), PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, FluxCD, GitLab CI
Software Engineer
NiceCode Jan 2020 — Apr 2022 · On-site
Software Engineer
- Built web-scraping and data-parsing services (Django, pandas, regex) feeding Google Sheets.
- Stabilized a legacy codebase: added test coverage and monitoring.
- Maintained a video-course platform for patient rehabilitation.
Python (Django, DRF, Celery, aiogram, pandas), PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, GitLab CI