Igor Potapkin Email & Phone Number

Warsaw, Pl

Poland

- Developed multiple microservices from scratch using Django, FastAPI, and SQLAlchemy, ensuring robust code architecture and layout.- Hosted and deployed microservices on the AWS EC2 instances, maintaining and optimizing Kubernetes and Helm chart configurations.- Set up and maintained CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment efficiency and reducing downtime.- Assisted in outlining features and decomposing tasks to facilitate effective delegation and project management.- Decided on architectural solutions, pivoting implementation strategies to enhance system performance and scalability.- Integrated third-party services using REST APIs and GraphQL, ensuring seamless interoperability.- Maintained high test coverage (85%+) across all code bases, implementing automated testing and continuous integration pipelines.- Conducted code reviews and mentored junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.- Onboarded new backend developers, providing training and guidance to ensure smooth integration into the team.- Explained technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders, facilitating better understanding and decision-making.- Ensured security and compliance by integrating best practices and regularly updating dependencies and configurations.

- Led a product team of front-end developers, back-end developers, and QA engineers of up to 6 people.- Implemented a dozen of 3rd party API integrations including those of legal and financial importance.- Actively pushed for new technologies and led their adoption.- Outlined the architecture and deconstructed complex features to simplify delegation and development.- Created an internal service that automated up to 90% of tasks for a team of ~10 people, which allowed them to increase contract throughput drastically and thus brought a solid yield to the company.- Optimized and refactored step by step certain slowly working parts of multiple microservices (e.g. reports, data loaders, API endpoints) resulting in the most notable cases of up to 100x faster execution times.- Created and improved internal CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab/Bitbucket) to speed up code delivery to test environments and ensure that code quality and test coverage were on point.- Onboarded multiple developers who were joining the dev team.- Worked closely with HRs and conducted interviews to hire new developers.𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: python 3 (up to 3.10), Django (+ Django Rest Framework), FastAPI sync/async, Celery, Dramatiq, darq, pytest, pydantic, Redis, Nginx, pandas, elk, kibana, influxdb, grafana, PostgreSQL, pgbouncer, ansible, luigi-tasks, telegraf, sentry, Makefile, docker, docker-compose

St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: python 3 (up to 3.10), Django (+ Django Rest Framework), FastAPI sync/async, Celery, Dramatiq, darq, pytest, pydantic, Redis, Nginx, pandas, elk, kibana, influxdb, grafana, postgresql, pgbouncer, ansible, luigi-tasks, telegraf, sentry, Makefile, docker, docker-compose

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: Python 2.7 / Python 3.8+, Django (DRF), pytest, Celery, MySQL, Redis, Nginx, Influxdb, Grafana, Docker, docker-compose, Makefile, ansible, bitbucket pipelines