Andrey Cizov
Technical Lead at iwoca
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrey Cizov is a Senior Backend Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building scalable APIs, ETL workflows and web interfaces, and applying ML techniques such as NLP to product problems. He has shipped production systems across fintech and ad-tech, currently driving backend architecture and delivery at iwoca after multi-year work on NLP and ML at The Fusion Labs. A pragmatic polyglot with a soft spot for Rust, Andrey contributes to open-source projects like the Cap'n Proto Python bindings where he improved build reliability and Python-friendly struct initialization. He combines hands-on coding with attention to developer experience, compatibility and code quality, and enjoys exploring DSL design and decentralized system architectures. Early projects span API-integrated management systems, C# tooling and computer vision research, reflecting a breadth from low-level compatibility fixes to applied ML in production.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Leeds
English, Russian, Lithuanian
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Github Skills (12)
proto10
rpc10
python10
cython10
capnproto10
testing9
build-automation8
code-coverage6
facebook-graph-api6
iterator6
chunks6
intellij-idea6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
capnproto/pycapnp
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Cap'n Proto serialization/RPC system - Python bindings
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrey primarily addressed build failures, warning removals, and deprecation warnings within the Python bindings. They fixed compilation issues, removed deprecation warnings, and eliminated build failures in the test environment. Additionally, they enabled initialization of structs using the Python way and fixed a specific issue. The contributions show a focus on code quality, compatibility, and improving the developer experience.
python-bindingsrpcserialization
andreycizov/python-epaxos
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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