Anthony Leontiev
Founding CTO at Asaak
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Leontiev is a Founding CTO and full-stack developer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems from deployment infrastructure to API design. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has led backend teams and migration efforts—most notably designing an in-house deployment API to move services from Heroku to Kubernetes—and founded AltSchool’s open-source Dynamic REST to extend Django REST Framework capabilities. He combines hands-on engineering (from Python and Django backends to real-time integrations and responsive front-ends) with product-minded leadership, mentoring engineers and running partner integrations. Known for pragmatic, efficiency-focused work—like delta processing and a 1000x data-update speedup—he prefers simple, extensible solutions that scale. Describing himself as a “distributed system of one,” he brings startup grit and deep backend craftsmanship to early-stage product engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Russian
Github Skills (17)
api-rest10
python10
django10
restful-api10
django-rest10
django-rest-framework10
rest-api10
api-design9
testing9
serializer9
unit-testing9
integration-testing9
test-unit9
unit-test9
test-integration9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
AltSchool/dynamic-rest
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Dynamic extensions for Django REST Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 591 commits, 90 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the Django REST Framework project, focusing on features to dynamically extend REST API functionality. Their work includes implementing and testing serializers, custom renderers for sideloading, and viewset features. Key contributions include fixes to model lookups and bug fixes for a python client, alongside adding a variety of related API tests.
django-rest-frameworkrest
aleontiev/dj
Nov 2016 - May 2020
dj, the Django CLI
Contributions:2 releases, 123 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 6 months
clidjango
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