Summary
Anton Ryzhov is a senior backend engineering manager based in Berlin with 14 years of professional experience and a long-standing passion for clean architecture, distributed systems, and high-load infrastructure. He blends hands-on Python expertise—11 years concentrated in the language—with leadership in API design, migrations, incident investigations and mentoring, having stepped into CTO and technical-due-diligence roles. Anton has built and operated production services across Kubernetes, gRPC, Kafka/RabbitMQ, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, and focuses on reliability, security and resource-efficient multithreaded applications. His open-source contributions include meaningful fixes and refactors to legacy but widely used projects like pysimplesoap and SleekXMPP, showing an attention to protocol correctness and interoperability. He prefers engineering that satisfies both pragmatic product needs and his own standards for elegant implementation. A trained engineer in nuclear technology by education, he brings systematic problem-solving and rigor to software architecture and infrastructure decisions.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Nuclear/Nuclear Power Technology/Technician, Engineer's degree, Nuclear/Nuclear Power Technology/Technician at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Russian, English, German