Work

Building Kukruma, my own product - a recipe app that helps you cook more efficiently. It takes in recipes from photos and wherever else they live, suggests what to cook, shows the quantities right at each step and keeps your cookbook organised your way.

Working with AWS and Terraform. Doing DevOps - helping manage ECS, GitLab runners, and improve observability. Introduced tracing with OpenTelemetry.

• Led the migration from Datadog to OpenObserve + Grafana (logs, metrics, traces, alerts, dashboards), saving 2,000 USD per month.
• Helped speed up the core CI pipeline from 30 minutes per run to 6 minutes.
• Led the implementation of an agentic alert investigator that lets the company react quickly to outages.

Designed and developed an application (Rust backend, React frontend) for the Mergado Store. The app empowers e-shops with AI-driven tools (OpenAI integration), expanded product information (IceCat), and enhanced marketing strategies (Sklik, Google Search Analytics, Google Ads).

Helped with architectural improvements. Introduced, deployed and managed Backstage - a documentation platform for APIs, micro-services, and Django applications. Contributed to modules for app to app communication, payments processing. Helped develop and maintain a risk assessment module written in Rust.

Built services and modules (Python, asyncio, FastAPI) to strengthen fraud detection and risk mitigation for banking clients. Contributed to developer experience enhancements through automation and architectural refinements (ADRs). Helped implement machine learning techniques for fraud detection.

Led initiatives to improve developer productivity and happiness with automation, tooling, enhanced monitoring, and established company-wide standards. Participated in the development of open-source tools (The Zoo, Phoenix, Schemathesis). Gained expertise in Kubernetes and Terraform for scalable infrastructure management.

Oversaw all technological decision-making, resource allocation, and the development of a scalable developer platform (Mergado Developers). Led a team of 6 developers.

Built a backend API (Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy). Developed statistical analytics tools (Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib).