Ivan Styazhkin
Software Engineer at Self-employed
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Styazhkin is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend systems, currently at Meta and mentoring engineers independently. He has deep Python expertise across Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Celery and PostgreSQL, and has designed APIs and deployment pipelines for both cloud-native and on-prem environments using Docker, Kubernetes and Kafka. His career includes work on platform tooling and packaging for Hadoop and RPM distributions, plus hands-on experience with Golang when contributing to foundational infrastructure. Ivan splits his time evenly between coding (development, reviews, testing) and pairing sessions, and has led internal training and onboarding workshops that accelerated new hires' productivity. He’s known for pragmatic project decomposition, legacy refactoring, and a test-first mindset (TDD/BDD) that improves long-term maintainability. Outside work he’s a multi-role family person and active mentor who brings a collaborative, people-first approach to technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Math, Applied Math at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Архитектурно-Строительный Университет
Russian, English
Github Skills (30)
client-library10
python-client10
k8s9
python8
scoring8
kubernetes7
machine-learning7
bootstrapping6
datasets6
asciidoctor6
todoist6
technical-writing6
open-datasets5
batch5
nodejs5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
inesusvet/tests-talk
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:62 commits, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 10 days
inesusvet/pycon-2019-workshop
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Materials for my workshop at Minsk PyCon in 2019
Contributions:57 commits, 4 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 month
pythonpyconworkshopminskmachine-learning
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