Andrew Sklyarov

Python Backend Engineer

Career Summary

I am a software developer with 10 years of experience in all levels of web applications development: backend, frontend, database management, deployment and testing.

Interested in a challenging technical/lead career in software development.

Main specialization: Senior python backend engineer. Solid clouds/devops experience. Frontend experience(mostly react).
Domains: SaaS, Fintech, Web development. Some IoT experience.

Work Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

PandaDoc

Feb 2022 - Present

Senior backend engineer working on diverse initiatives across the product.

Responsibilities:

Design and implement scalable microservices architecture
Develop high-performance async APIs using aiohttp-based framework
Build event-driven systems with Kafka for real-time data processing (e.g. Invoice generation)
Collaborate on cross-team initiatives and technical decision-making

Technologies used:

Python
Asyncio
Aiohttp
Apache Kafka
Temporal
kubernetes
terraform
Microservices

Team Lead

EOS Data Analytics

March 2020 - Jan 2022

Entered as a senior dev, I was promoted as a team lead for a new branch/team(focus on product growth, payments).

Responsibilities:

Team development and growth
Solutions design and development
Application architecture
Decomposition/estimation
Feature delivering

Technologies used:

Python
Django
Microservices
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
Redis
Docker
AWS

Lead Developer

Opesta

May 2017 - March 2020

Messenger automation platform, SaaS.

Designed a complex SaaS from scratch with different projects: API backend, frontend, celery background processing (1-5M events/month), js sdk, zapier app etc.

Achievements:

Developed/designed from scratch.
Leading a team from 1 to 3 developers.
Designed solutions and optimizations for production load.
Managed 10+ servers production environment, set up centralized monitoring/logging.

Technologies used:

Python/Django
Django Rest Framework
Celery
AngularJS
NodeJS
Ansible
Gulp/Webpack
HTML/SASS
PostgreSQL
CI/CD

Full Stack Developer

SoftFormance

May 2017 - March 2020

Full Stack developer in the outsourcing company with one continuous project (Opesta) and several other projects where I was involved as a mentor/architect

Achievements

Advanced to lead developer/mentor role.

Technologies used:

Python
Django
React
Ansible

Full Stack Developer

Four-eyes

Jan 2016 – May 2017

Full Stack developer in the outsourcing company.

Wrote maintainable and extensible service with bloomberg integration for internal use for the financial company. Communicated with the customer, managed tasks for the second developer and managed tasks priorities.
Supported and improved code for turfmapp.com in a team.
Designed, implemented and deployed advanced monitoring&logging&alert solution for turfmapp.com using Elastic stack(Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) + Elastic Beats + Elastalert. Wrote ansible playbook for autodeploy.
Developed MVP for mentorx.net in a team environment using agile methodology. Improved payment system.

Technologies used:

Django
Flask
React
Backbone
Elastic stack
Ansible
Gulp
AWS

Designer, HTML/CSS developer

Agrocorporation

Jun 2014 – Jan 2016

Improved and maintained corporate website. Developed various polygraphic and web designs.

Web-designer

Free-lance

Feb 2011 – Jan 2016

Developed many different designs, and performed other related work.

Skills & Tools

Back-end

Python
AsyncIO
Aiohttp
Django
Celery
Flask
Django Rest Framework
Django channels
Pandas

Front-end

HTML/CSS
JavaScript
Node.js
React
AngularJS
Webpack

Databases/Message queues

PostgreSQL
MySQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
Elasticsearch

DevOps

Linux
Docker
AWS
DigitalOcean
Ansible
Terraform
Kubernetes
Fabric
ELK Stack
GrayLog
Prometheus
Grafana
CI/CD

APIs

Shopify
Stripe
Facebook
Google

Other

Git
Code Review
Mentorship
Unit Testing

Education

Master's degree, Economic Cybernetics

National Mining University

2011 - 2016
Machine Learning

Coursera

2017

Language

Interests

Snowboarding
Cooking