Anton Zhyrnyi
Tech Lead Senior Python Contractor Remote at Self-employed
Setúbal, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Zhyrnyi is a Senior Python freelancer with 11 years of experience building reliable web applications and IT processes for small teams and business owners. He specializes in backend development with Django, Sanic and FastAPI, and brings strong expertise in migrating legacy Python2 codebases to modern Python3+, performance tuning, and automated testing and deployments. As a contributor to the Sanic project, he implemented class-based views and advanced routing features, demonstrating practical open-source impact on high-performance web frameworks. Anton combines hands-on coding with DevOps and team leadership—mentoring juniors, running code reviews, and designing scalable development workflows. Known for clear, honest communication, he focuses on delivering quality-driven, maintainable solutions that align with business needs. Based in Setúbal, Portugal, he pairs a law master’s background with a pragmatic engineering approach that helps translate complex requirements into robust products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
master`s degree, law, master`s degree, law at Dnipropetrovs'kij Nacional'nij Universitet
Russian, Ukrainian, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (11)
sanic10
web-framework10
python10
api-server10
asyncio10
web-content9
webpages9
asgi9
testing8
pytest8
sql7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sanic-org/sanic
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Accelerate your web app development | Build fast. Run fast.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to the implementation of class-based views within the Sanic framework, a Python web framework. They added new features related to routing, including dynamic and static route handling, and implemented functionality for various HTTP methods. The user's work also involved refactoring existing code and adding examples related to database interactions using aiopg and SQLAlchemy.
next-generationasgipythonweb-serverasyncio
AntonDnepr/dom5-arena-map-gen
May 2021 - Mar 2023
Utils for Dominions 5
Contributions:30 PRs, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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