Vasja Volin
Senior Backend Engineer at LeafLink
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVasja Volin is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Oakland with 15 years of experience building and leading web-platform development across Python, PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby stacks. He blends hands-on engineering with systems-level architecture—revamping Terraform/Ansible AWS setups, designing analytics and experimentation pipelines, and shipping microservices that supported regulated crypto campaigns. At companies from Hearst to Republic and LeafLink he improved developer velocity and product metrics (for example, reducing defect rates and cutting onboarding time by half) while growing and mentoring remote teams. An active contributor to Django Packages, he’s comfortable fixing API integrations and refactoring backend handlers for widely used open-source projects. Known for pragmatic domain modeling and automation, he pairs solid CS fundamentals from Rutgers with a track record of turning complex requirements into reliable, measurable outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer & Electrical Engineering, BS, Computer & Electrical Engineering at Rutgers School of Engineering
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (5)
packaging10
python10
django10
bitbucket-api9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
djangopackages/djangopackages
Mar 2011 - Mar 2011
Django Packages is a directory of reusable apps, sites, tools, and more for your Django projects.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Vasja primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Django Packages project. Their work included adding tests for different repository types, specifically Sourceforge. They also fixed the Bitbucket API handler. In addition, they worked on refactoring grid detail and grid feature detail handler functions and fixed minor UI issues.
django-packagesdjango-projectdjangopythonpackaging
grobolom/ShadowVerseWinTracker
Sep 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:198 commits, 90 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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