Alex K.

Senior Backend Engineer · Python & Go
Warsaw, Poland Remote · CET 8+ years experience
Open to contract work

Profile

Backend engineer with 8+ years of experience building reliable services and data pipelines. I like clean APIs, boring infrastructure that just works, and documentation people actually read. Comfortable owning a service end to end — from schema design to on-call.

40korders/min handled by the routing service
−35%cloud spend after autoscaling rework
99.95%API uptime over the last 2 years

Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

2023 — present
Logistics SaaS startup · Remote
  • Designed and built the order routing service in Go, handling peaks of 40k orders per minute.
  • Moved batch jobs to Kafka consumers, cutting end-to-end delivery ETA latency from minutes to seconds.
  • Introduced cost-aware autoscaling that reduced the monthly cloud bill by 35%.
Go · Kafka · PostgreSQL · Kubernetes · Terraform

Backend Developer

2020 — 2023
Web development agency · Warsaw
  • Delivered REST APIs for 12+ client projects in e-commerce and fintech.
  • Integrated payment providers and built a reusable billing module used across projects.
  • Migrated CI/CD from Jenkins to GitLab CI, shortening release time from a day to 20 minutes.
Python · Django · FastAPI · Celery · Redis

Junior Python Developer

2017 — 2020
Data analytics company
  • Built ETL pipelines and internal reporting tools on PostgreSQL and ClickHouse.
  • Wrote the team's onboarding guide and coding standards.
Python · Pandas · PostgreSQL · ClickHouse

Education

BSc in Computer Science

Technical university

2013 — 2017

Selected projects

Schema migration helper

Small CLI for zero-downtime PostgreSQL migrations with automatic lock checks.

Rate limiter library

Token-bucket rate limiter for Go services backed by Redis, with Prometheus metrics.