Yuri Prezument
Freelance Software Developer Consultant at Self Employed - Software Development
Israel
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Top SchoolYuri Prezument is a freelance software developer and consultant with 14+ years building backend systems, web applications, and scalable SaaS platforms from MVP to production. He combines hands-on engineering (Python, Django, gRPC, Redis) with architecture, CI/CD and DevOps experience gained at startups and enterprise hardware-software integration projects. As a former CTO and co-founder, he pairs product-level thinking and team-building with pragmatic implementation, including machine-learning driven recommendation work and large PostgreSQL performance tuning. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved robustness in widely used projects like newspaper3k and the Django REST Framework by adding tests, fixes and CI improvements. Comfortable across Linux server automation, networking/security for embedded devices, and rapid MVP development, he’s adept at turning complex requirements into maintainable systems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Software Engineering, B.Sc., Software Engineering at Jerusalem College of Engineering
English, Russian, Hebrew
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Github Skills (38)
debug10
serializer10
filehandle10
python10
django10
testing10
nltk10
api10
rest10
html-parsing10
lxml10
attachment10
file-handling10
error-handling10
unix9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ui/django-post_office
Aug 2013 - Feb 2016
A Django app that allows you to send email asynchronously in Django. Supports HTML email, database backed templates and logging.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 14 PRs, 44 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Yuri primarily contributed to the Django backend of the `django-post_office` repository, focusing on core functionality. They addressed issues related to email priority handling, improving error messages and implementing attachments. Furthermore, they refactored code, fixed Python 3 compatibility issues, and optimized the system.
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codelucas/newspaper
May 2015 - Dec 2017
newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:53 commits, 26 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Yuri primarily contributed to improving the newspaper3k library's stability and maintainability. They addressed lxml parsing errors by adding specific exception handling and logging. They also enhanced the codebase's quality and reliability by adding unit tests, fixing HTTP response handling, and implementing code style improvements. Furthermore, they improved the project's documentation and infrastructure by adding a Travis CI badge and coveralls badge.
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