Tigor Bakutin
Senior Backend Engineer at Shoplift
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarTigor Bakutin is a Senior Backend Engineer and former technical founder with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput systems and leading small international teams. He has repeatedly shipped production-grade infrastructure—from a no-code HR event platform handling millions of events to corporate auth systems and distributed data pipelines—while personally owning core components and incident response. As Head of Engineering at a privacy-focused AI nonprofit he’s blending self-hosted inference, speech processing and RAGs with practical hallucination control, and he currently contributes backend expertise at Shoplift. A longtime mentor and technical leader, he ran company-wide architecture seminars and guided cross-functional design at NewtonX. His open-source maintenance work on django-rest-swagger shows attention to backwards-compatibility and robustness in widely used tooling. Based in Amsterdam, he combines startup grit and systems-level thinking to solve ambiguous problems end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (6)
django-rest10
swagger-ui10
python10
django-rest-framework10
django10
openapi9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
marcgibbons/django-rest-swagger
May 2016 - May 2016
Swagger Documentation Generator for Django REST Framework: deprecated
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tigor primarily contributed to the `django-rest-swagger` project by addressing bugs and improving code quality. They focused on fixing issues related to handling lists with primitive child elements, and added checks for 'get_fields' method. The user also fixed import statements and addressed a linter error within the codebase. These changes suggest an effort to maintain and improve the existing functionality of the swagger documentation generator.
pythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangodocumentation-generatorrest-framework
Bakuutin/automoderation
Nov 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:106 commits, 7 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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