Konstantin Burov
Staff Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolKonstantin Burov is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sydney with 16 years of experience building resilient backend systems and Android applications across startups and major consumer platforms. He progressed from hands-on Android and educational app development to leading architecture and delivery at Snap, demonstrating deep expertise in service integration, DevOps and scheduled serverless deployments. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved high-profile projects like Zappa (serverless Python) and P6Spy, contributing fixes that span API Gateway integration, scheduling, and reliable SQL logging. Known for introducing pragmatic engineering practices early in his career (including company-wide Scrum adoption), he combines strong technical craftsmanship with a knack for making APIs and integrations easy to configure and maintain.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Irkutsk State Technical University
English, Russian
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aws-lambda10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Miserlou/Zappa
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Serverless Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 commits, 15 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Konstantin contributed to the `zappa` project, which focuses on serverless Python deployment. They improved the core functionality by refactoring the handler to introspect function signatures and expose the context via WSGI, and by introducing scheduled event management. Furthermore, they modified the deployment process to include scheduling and unscheduling of events. They also fixed the API Gateway integration and implemented features like custom exception handling.
api-gatewaypythonpyramidserverless-applicationsdjango
p6spy/p6spy
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
P6Spy is a framework that enables database data to be seamlessly intercepted and logged with no code changes to the application.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:14 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Konstantin primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `p6spy` project, a framework for intercepting and logging database interactions. The user addressed issues such as correcting SQL output for null values and ensuring proper formatting of logged SQL statements. Additionally, the user was involved in fixing test cases and removing unnecessary tests, contributing to the project's overall stability and quality.
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