Kostiantyn Hantsov
Staff Software Engineer at Backlight
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolKostiantyn Hantsov is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently leading platform work at Backlight in Stockholm. He is proficient in Python and Go and routinely architects services using Flask, aiohttp, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker and Kubernetes, while also shipping front-end features with React and Redux. His career spans media and cloud-focused platforms (iconik.io, Cantemo) where he solved complex distributed-data and integration challenges. Constantly exploring new paradigms, he experiments with languages and systems like Elm, Clojure, Haskell and CockroachDB in his spare time, which informs pragmatic choices in production. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on engineer who pairs deep systems thinking with steady delivery of reliable, observable services.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computerized Systems Automatics and Managment, Master’s Degree Computerized Systems Automatics and Managment at PHEI Institute of Economics and New Technologies
English, Russian, Ukrainian, Swedish
Github Skills (44)
sanic10
gino10
asyncpg10
python-asyncio9
sqlalchemy9
nunjucks9
python8
python-web8
api-server8
server8
asgi7
http-server7
orm7
web-development7
mouse5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kgantsov/qwriter
Dec 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
kgantsov/data_structures_and_algorithms
Apr 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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