Summary
Yaraslau Zhylko is a lead software engineer based in Vilnius with over a decade of hands-on experience building and migrating backend systems for startups and scale-ups. He specializes in Python, FastAPI, async architectures and Celery, and has driven complex migrations from serverless stacks to ECS, GraphQL and PostgreSQL to improve stability and developer velocity. Yaraslau combines technical leadership—mentoring teams, conducting architectural reviews, and owning integrations with payment and messaging providers—with a pragmatic focus on testing and observability. His background spans high-load .NET systems, corporate accounting software, and early-career security roles, giving him a rare mix of performance, compliance, and infrastructure sensibilities. Known for contributing back to open-source libraries used by his projects, he favors practical, well-tested solutions that scale.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Linguistics at Minsk State Linguistic University
English, German, Russian, Ukrainian