Oleksandr Zahirnyi
Senior Backend Engineer at MovieFinder
Durrës County, Albania
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Top SchoolOleksandr Zahirnyi is a Senior Python Backend Engineer with 6–7 years of experience designing and shipping high-performance, production-grade systems across FastAPI, Django, gRPC, PostgreSQL and cloud-native stacks. He has a track record of delivering outsized impact—building a solo POC in two weeks that replaced a two-month team effort, cutting third-party API calls by 97%, and leading refactors across 70% of codebase to boost performance by 40%. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and a technical lead, he mentors engineers, authors architectural standards, and embeds AI-assisted tooling (Cursor, OpenAI Codex, MCP) into developer workflows. As a founder of an AI-driven movie discovery product, he blends practical ML/LLM integrations with sub-second response engineering. Based in Albania, he focuses on distributed systems design and production-grade AI-assisted engineering practices that accelerate onboarding and maintainability.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at National University of the State Fiscal Service of UkraineComputer Science, Computer Science at ucode IT academy
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Github Skills (5)
django9
orm8
django-framework8
python8
web-framework3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ozahirnyi/uls
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:69 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ozahirnyi/movie_finder
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
App for saving and searching movies
Contributions:14 reviews, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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