Based
Kraków
PL · UTC+2
01 / About
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What I actually do.
Primary
Python, Django
Layer
Backend, infra, AI
Working from
Kraków, Poland
Born in
Lviv, Ukraine
I architect and lead the backend, cloud, and AI systems products are built on.
Ten years in Python and Django, mostly in the parts other people are happy not to think about — queues, sockets, video pipelines, the AWS bill.
For most of the last seven I've led backend and DevOps on high-load platforms: architecture, infrastructure, the pager.
Before that — teaching Django to a few hundred students in Lviv, shipping real-time video and streaming pipelines for client products, and nearly two years building physical infrastructure from the ground up: servers, networks, the metal under everything that came later.
02 / Experience
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Where the code shipped.
Feb 2026 → Present
5m
Hamburg, Germany · Remote
Senior Software Engineer · Team Leadat Software Development Hub
Leading the engineering team and driving technical strategy for a scalable, high-load EdTech platform serving the US market.
- role — Team Lead — architecture decisions, technical direction, code review, and the bits between standups that actually move things.
- stack — Python, Django, DRF, Channels, Celery, Postgres, Redis — proven backbone tuned for high concurrency and predictable latency.
- infra — AWS end-to-end with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and infrastructure built to absorb traffic spikes without drama.
- focus — Scalability and reliability for a learning product where downtime means a classroom going quiet.
Oct 2019 → Feb 2026
6y 4m
Santa Clara, CA · Remote
Senior Software Engineer · Team Leadat TalentFly
Owned the backend and DevOps for an AI-driven interview platform — architecture, AWS, CI/CD, the bits that page you at 3am.
- stack — Python, Django, DRF, Channels, Celery, Postgres, Redis — designed for reliability under unpredictable load.
- infra — AWS end-to-end: pipelines, deploys, infra optimization. The team shipped without ceremony.
- AI — Integrated LLM-powered automation for interviews, résumé generation, and structured content processing.
- principles — Security, observability, and boring infrastructure as a feature. Performance work where it actually paid.
Jun 2016 → Oct 2019
3y 4m
Sheridan, WY · Remote
Software Engineerat ActiveWizards
Backend and real-time systems for a rotation of client products — from streaming pipelines to scraping fleets.
- real-time — Built video conferencing and streaming with WebRTC, Kurento, FFmpeg, GStreamer, Video.js.
- backend — Django, Channels, Celery — reliability-focused services where the SLA mattered.
- NLP — Chatbots, scraping pipelines, structured data extraction with Scrapy and Selenium.
- infra — AWS + DigitalOcean: deployments, environment setup, a corporate VPN that mostly stayed up.
- viz — D3.js / NVD3.js for the kind of dashboards executives actually look at.
Apr 2017 → Jun 2020
3y 2m
Lviv, Ukraine · Part-time
Lecturer · Python & Webat Logos IT Academy
Taught the things I wish someone had taught me — Python, Django, deployments that don't fall over.
- courses — Python fundamentals, Django web development, deployment & version control, MySQL.
- outcomes — Mentored students through real projects, into actual junior engineering roles.
Nov 2014 → Jul 2016
1y 8m
Lviv, Ukraine
System Administrator · Service Engineerat alcomp.net.ua
Nearly two years on physical infrastructure — servers, workstations, networks designed and deployed end-to-end. The hands-on foundation underneath everything I built afterwards.
- systems — Owned workstations and servers across the company — OS installs, configurations, hardware diagnostics, day-to-day operations.
- networks — Designed and deployed LAN topologies from scratch, configured switches and routers, set up monitoring and uptime alerting.
- support — First line of defence for everything that beeped, blinked, or refused to boot — across the whole organisation.
- foundation — The years that taught me to take reliability, observability, and clean infrastructure seriously — long before any of it lived in the cloud.
03 / Stack
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The toolbox, honest version.
Languages
01 / 08
Python
JavaScript
C (Python bindings)
Backend & APIs
02 / 08
Django
Django REST
Django Channels
FastAPI
Flask
aiohttp
Node.js
Express
WebSockets
Distributed & Async
03 / 08
Celery
Redis
RabbitMQ
asyncio
Event-driven systems
Data & Search
04 / 08
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Elasticsearch
Pandas
Cloud & DevOps
05 / 08
AWS
Docker
CI/CD
Nginx
Apache
Daphne
AI & NLP
06 / 08
LLM systems
Conversational AI
AI-driven automation
NLP pipelines
Real-time & Media
07 / 08
LiveKit
WebRTC
Socket.IO
FFmpeg
GStreamer
Kurento
OpenVidu
Video.js
Quality & Tooling
08 / 08
pytest
Playwright
Selenium
Scrapy
Git
UML
Regex
04 / Community · Learning
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Other things that shaped the way I work.
Community & Volunteering
Technical Volunteer · Software Engineering
Feb 2022 — PresentUkrainian government cyber-defence units — pro bono engineering work for state agencies. Details on request.
Ukraine · NDA
IT Mentor
2017 — PresentVarious — junior engineers, students, career switchers.
Ongoing
Participant
2023Defence-tech hackathon — counter-UAS systems under a Ukrainian defence initiative. Details on request.
Ukraine · NDA
Chief Judge
2018FRI Jam Camp — Game Dev Hackathon
Education
2009–14
M.Sc., Information Security Management
Lviv Polytechnic National University
2016
Python Programming
Lviv IT School
2016
Machine Learning
Lviv IT School
Languages
Ukrainian
Native
English
B2
Polish
A2
05 / Exploring
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What I'm tinkering with, after hours.
Currently exploring
A small computer-vision rig on the edge — Jetson hardware running tiny but capable models, no cloud round-trip required.
Jetson Orin Nano
67 TOPS · 8GB · the brain
OpenCV
frames in, tensors out
YOLO v8
real-time object detection
06 / Off-the-clock
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When the laptop is shut.
RA 18h · DEC +35°
✶
Astronomy
Mostly amateur, mostly Northern hemisphere. Deep-sky targets, the occasional planetary night.
f/1.2 · 1/250
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Photography
Long walks with a camera. Documentary instinct, low patience for staged shots.
+1380 m
△
Hiking
Carpathians close to home, Tatras when I have a weekend. Maps over apps.
since 2017
❋
Mentoring
Nine years of teaching habit. I still owe a few people coffees.
10,700 m
⊕
Travel
Window seat, please. Planes shrink continents in a way nothing else does — and the coffee at 10,700 m is better than the reviews suggest.
save.dat
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Video games
Strategy, roguelikes, and anything with a story worth losing sleep over. Bonus points for a 200-page wiki.
07 / Contact
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Let's talk.
+ Good fit
- Backend-heavy product · Python, async, distributed
- Hands-on lead or senior IC — architecture, mentoring, shipping
- Real-time systems, AI infrastructure, dev-tools, ambitious product work
- Remote, async-first · timezone UTC−2 to UTC+3
- A team that ships, tests, and reviews like adults
× Not a fit
- Frontend-only or design-system maintenance
- Crypto, gambling, ad-tech, surveillance
- “Move fast and break things” without the second sentence
- Open-plan office · daily 9am standups · in-person mandatory
Currently available
for senior + lead roles.
Best for backend, distributed systems, AI-adjacent infra, or a thoughtful team that needs an experienced pair of hands. Remote-first.
Write me an email →