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Senior Python / Backend Engineer
I design and build backend systems: APIs, microservices, integrations, data and infrastructure.
What draws me are problems at the seam between code, data and infrastructure — you can neither design the service nor fix it without understanding the whole system around it.
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In development since 2019, the recent years on Python backends: FastAPI microservices, API and data-model design, integrations with external systems, PostgreSQL and ClickHouse, containerisation and running services in production.
A distinct part of the job is the people and decisions around the code: architecture, code review, mentoring, technical interviews. A good system outlives whoever wrote it only if the team understands why it is shaped the way it is.
I gravitate to problems that do not fit inside a single application. The cause of a failure usually sits at a different level from the failure itself: in the data model, in a query plan, in the network, or in someone else’s API that answered differently yesterday. That is the level I go down to.
Outside of work: Home Assistant and ESPHome, network hardware and OpenWrt, my own LLM infrastructure, 3D printing and electronics. Nearly everything I know about networks, operations and debugging live systems came from there.
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Three projects you can open and try right now.
An ISP’s CCTV and intercom, opened up for a smart home
The provider exposes its cameras and intercom only through its own app. I reverse-engineered the private protocol and built an integration: RTSP and WebRTC cameras, intercom call history, snapshots and archive-clip retrieval through Home Assistant services. Installable via HACS and running in other people’s homes — hence the issues and the stars.
A map of Russian filling stations: fuel prices and availability
A product I own end to end: collecting and normalising data across fuel-station networks, the backend and database, a filterable map, SEO, and deployment to my own nginx VPS. There is nobody to split product decisions or on-call with.
Subscribe to seats that do not exist yet
A Telegram bot on aiogram: step-by-step train search, then a subscription that polls the railway API every few minutes and pings you the moment a seat frees up. Filters by seat type, finding seats next to each other, and parsing the carriage seat map. The hard part was not technical but interface: the whole dialogue lives in a single message the bot rewrites, so the chat stays clean. SQLite for subscriptions, pytest and GitHub Actions inside.
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What I write every day and answer for in production.
Adjacent territory I have built, configured and fixed myself at home.
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Senior software engineer · 2022 — present
Software engineer · 2021—2022
Python developer · 2019—2021