Preston Rakovsky
Founder at @prestonrack
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPreston Scibek is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, APIs, and data ingestion pipelines across startups and enterprise environments. He specializes in API-first design, large-scale data scraping and processing (Selenium, OCR, PDF tooling), and modernizing legacy workflows into serverless and AWS-native architectures. At Capital One he drove multi-team refactors that replaced decades-old mainframe processes, cut customer booking time from days to minutes, and delivered measurable cost and incident reductions. He’s comfortable across the stack—Django, Python serverless APIs, PySpark—and has repeatedly turned brittle monoliths into asynchronous, high-volume services. A childhood cancer survivor who discovered coding during long hospital stays, he brings persistence and a pragmatic, product-focused engineering mindset forged over a decade of diverse projects.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Candidate Computer Science and Finance, Bachelor of Science - BS Candidate Computer Science and Finance at Northeastern UniversitySouth Side High School
Github Skills (11)
django-rest-framework5
django5
django-rest5
api4
rest-framework4
pypi4
python3
rest-api3
rest3
universe1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
preston-scibek/misc_lol_scripts
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
preston-scibek/Python
May 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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