Kolya
From Malaysia (UTC+8)
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offers now 🔥Kolya – Python, React, Django
Kolya is a full-stack engineer who brings strong proficiency in Python, Node.js, and React, with practical exposure to both RDBMS and NoSQL systems. He has led projects end-to-end, implemented GPT-based chat and personalization features, and has leveraged tools like Cursor and Gemini for development. His strengths lie in modern frontend foundations, thoughtful backend architecture considerations (e.g., autoscaling, retry logic, Redis), and a clear understanding of Python internals like decorators, context managers, and concurrency models.
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Staff Software Engineer
From idea to email in 30 seconds. Inspired by the best in SaaS.
- Built a B2B email campaign platform (Python/FastAPI, React/Next.js) with a custom campaign editor, multi-tenant REST APIs, AI personalization features, and webhook integrations.
- Implemented structured LLM generation (system prompts + schema-driven outputs) to produce HTML email variants across hundreds of use cases, with validation and fallback logic to prevent broken templates and formatting regressions.
- Deployed and operated a production AWS platform (EKS/Fargate/EC2/Lambda/S3) with Terraform, Docker, and GitHub Actions CI/CD, supporting scaling, reliability, and Stripe billing.
Lead Software Engineer
Dispensed Australia is a patient-first platform committed to providing trusted, personalised healthcare support that’s easy to access and understand.
- Owned the backend architecture (Node.js/TypeScript, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Edge Functions): event-driven workflows for patient onboarding, prescription polling, billing, and PDF document generation.
- Implemented asynchronous processing patterns (scheduled polling, idempotency, retries with fallbacks, workflow state tracking) to keep clinical and billing flows reliable under failures and high traffic.
- Built the mobile app (React Native/Expo) covering onboarding, prescriptions, payments, document delivery, and user communications. Integrated external systems: Typeform, Semble (clinical), Chargebee (billing), and Resend (email).
Senior Software Engineer
United States high-traffic e-commerce platform.
- Drove design system work, UI/UX redesign, and new customer-facing services (Node.js, TypeScript, React, Storybook).
- Migrated legacy services to a Kafka-driven architecture, increasing system resilience and scalability to handle 1M+ daily events.
- Owned search and product discovery improvements using Algolia (indexing, relevance tuning, facets), supporting catalog flows.
- Set up product analytics instrumentation (events, funnels, dashboards) and strengthened reliability and observability with Sentry monitoring and performance tracing.
Senior Software Engineer
An innovative AI-driven design-to-code plugin.
- Built and scaled core backend APIs (Python, Flask, MongoDB, Redis, Docker) to support high-volume AI workloads.
- Owned the AI code generation layer: maintained a library of system prompts and personalization rules, and built a Python engine that converts Figma nodes into an intermediate AST for consistent, structured output.
- Delivered CI/CD and release automation (Travis CI), E2E automation (Cypress, Ghost Inspector), and production monitoring (Sentry).
Software Engineer
A significant media platform with over 20 million monthly users.
- Developed serverless microservices in Python/Flask and AWS Lambda, integrating with Kafka, SQS, and REST APIs for content publishing workflows.
- Built frontend UIs in React and TypeScript, integrated with backend APIs, and deployed with CI/CD automation.
Software Engineer
A UK-based financial services platform, encompassing multiple initiatives including a crypto solution, a finance management system, and an investment platform
- Developed backend services in Python (Django, Flask) and modernized legacy systems to Python 3, improving maintainability and performance.
- Designed RESTful APIs and managed relational databases with PostgreSQL.
- Collaborated with frontend teams, integrating APIs into modern JavaScript frameworks.