Valerii Chirkov is a pragmatic Python backend engineer with 5 years of experience building and maintaining data-heavy systems across startups and large enterprises, including telecom and ERP projects. He blends deep expertise in databases (Postgres, PL/pgSQL, Mongo), web frameworks (Django, DRF, FastAPI), and DevOps tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI) to deliver resilient ETL pipelines, microservices, and CI/CD-driven architectures. Valerii has a proven track record of refactoring and stabilizing integrations in open-source projects—contributing backend improvements to the widely used gpt4free repository—and often focuses on clean, maintainable core logic. Comfortable mentoring teams and moving monoliths toward microservices, he pairs strong Linux and testing discipline (TDD, pytest, selenium) with practical product-facing experience. With academic grounding in system analysis and project management, he aims to evolve into a system architect who designs robust, scalable platforms.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Economics and Accounting, Associate's degree, Economics and Accounting at College of Altai State University
Business Administration and Management, General, Course, Business Administration and Management, General, Course at SolBridge International School of Business
Bachelor's degree, Project Management, Bachelor's degree, Project Management at Altai State University
Master's degree, System Analysis, Master's degree, System Analysis at Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University
The official gpt4free repository | various collection of powerful language models | gpt-4o and deepseek v3 & r1
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Valerii primarily refactored and updated existing code within the `gpt4free` repository. They made improvements to the `cocalc` integration, enhancing its robustness and cleanliness. Additionally, the user addressed merge conflicts related to the `forefront` and `chatpdf` modules, and also modified `quora`'s api. Their work focused on core functionalities and integration aspects of the project. These updates and refactoring efforts indicate a focus on improving and maintaining the back-end logic.
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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