Evgeniy Afonasev is an experienced Python backend leader with 11 years building and scaling microservice architectures across fintech and large web platforms. He has progressed from hands-on developer at Yandex and startups to leading and founding Python departments at Tinkoff, where he built teams, interview pipelines, and internal training programs, and now heads Avito’s Anti-Fraud services team. Strong in system design, observability and data-backed services (Kafka, Postgres, ClickHouse, Redis, Elasticsearch), he blends architecture and people leadership while still coding and maintaining several open-source projects. Notably, he repeatedly designs and runs internal and university courses that convert trainees into hires, reflecting a focus on talent development as much as on technical delivery.
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