Summary
Melis Nurlan is a self-taught Python developer with nine years of professional experience and a strong track record of delivering web applications and APIs that scale to over a million users. He has led end-to-end projects across startups and large enterprises, from architecture and backend development to integrations, CI/CD, and production support. His recent work includes building NFT marketplace backends, real-time features with Django Channels, and large corporate systems with complex roles and async workflows. Comfortable across Django, FastAPI, Celery, PostgreSQL, Docker and Kubernetes, he also handles DevOps tasks and mentors junior engineers. Notably, he has repeatedly refactored monoliths into modular APIs and optimized systems for performance and maintainability, combining product thinking with pragmatic engineering.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer