Kirill Afan
Staff Software Developer at Thrive Career Wellness Platform
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKirill Afan is a Staff Software Developer with 13 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across Canada, Israel, and Ukraine, now based in Ottawa. He has deep full-stack and backend expertise—Ruby on Rails, Go, React, ElasticSearch, Kafka and identity services—gained through roles at Shopify, ecobee/Generac, and Thrive Career Wellness. Kirill excels at turning ambiguous requirements into robust architectures, particularly in checkout, merchant onboarding, and consolidated identity platforms. Comfortable in both startup and large-team environments, he focuses on performance, data modeling, and operational scalability. A pragmatic engineer who treats work as a “highly paid hobby,” he brings cross-border perspective and steady delivery across distributed systems and integrations.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Lisgar CollegiateAlgonquin CollegeAmos de Shalit
Russian, Hebrew, Ukrainian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
activemodel6
ruby-on-rails6
sass6
css6
wix6
custom-actions6
ajax6
javascript6
windows-installer6
mysql6
shared5
rails5
web-application4
ruby4
rails-gem4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KatataOP/Shelkovod
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Shelkovod Eco Farm in Ukraine
Contributions:18 PRs, 93 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
rocketzonesecofarm
kirka121/transop
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 months
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