Yevhenii

Yevhenii Avilov
Senior Backend Engineer (Python / Django / AWS)
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Kyiv, Ukraine https://yevhenii-portfolio-
five.vercel.app
Ukrainian

Profile
Backend Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience specializing in Django, Django REST Framework, and AWS-
based backend systems. Skilled in building scalable APIs, managing asynchronous tasks, optimizing performance, and
delivering reliable cloud-hosted applications. Focused on clean architecture and maintainable code, with a strong
emphasis on real-time features. Proven ability to work effectively in remote teams across global environments.

Work Experience

01/2023 – 11/2025 Senior Backend Engineer (Python / Django / AWS), Aiven
Remote Led the development of backend services for a high-traffic SaaS product, focusing on
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scalability and reliability.
Managed APIs that handled over 100k requests daily, ensuring system performance
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remained high under load.
Reduced technical debt by refactoring legacy code and optimizing key services for better
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efficiency.
Automated deployment pipelines with AWS CloudFormation, reducing manual
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intervention by 40%.
Enhanced performance of background tasks using Celery, reducing processing times by
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15%.
Provided 24/7 production support, handling mission-critical issues and minimizing
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downtime for customers.

09/2020 – 12/2022 Backend Developer (Python / Django), EVO Company (Prom.ua)
Kyiv, Ukraine Built and maintained backend services for a platform with 1M+ active users, ensuring
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smooth user experiences.
Developed and optimized 20+ REST APIs, improving request response times and system
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performance.
Managed PostgreSQL databases, optimizing queries and improving data retrieval times.
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Streamlined deployment cycles by implementing CI/CD pipelines, improving release times
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by 50%.
Took full ownership of backend features, reducing bug resolution time by 20%.
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Responded to on-call support, quickly resolving production issues to ensure system uptime.
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07/2018 – 08/2020 Junior Python / Django Developer, Softserve
Kyiv, Ukraine Contributed to the development of backend features for a system serving 500k+ users.
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Optimized REST APIs and database queries, reducing average response time by 30%.
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Wrote and maintained SQL queries for PostgreSQL, improving database efficiency and
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performance.
Participated in code reviews, learning from senior developers and improving coding
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practices.
Supported production deployments, helping maintain 99.9% system uptime.
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 Education

06/2016 – 02/2020 Bachelor, Chernihiv Polytechnic National University
Chernihiv, Ukraine Relevant Coursework:
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Distributed Systems: Gained insights into managing large-scale architectures, ensuring
consistency and fault tolerance.
Cloud Computing: Gained hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) for
scalable applications and deployment strategies.
Database Management: Focused on PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB, covering
database design, optimization, and query performance.
Software Engineering: Applied agile methodologies, best practices in software
development, and system design principles.
System Design: Learned to design scalable systems with an emphasis on microservices and
high availability.
Capstone Project: Developed a cloud-based web application hosted on AWS using
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Django and PostgreSQL. Focused on implementing real-time data processing and efficient
backend architecture.

Skills
Backend Technologies Cloud & Infrastructure Database Management
Python (Expert) – Advanced PostgreSQL (Expert) – Advanced
AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda) –
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knowledge of Python, including SQL skills, optimizing queries,
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Hands-on experience with AWS
asynchronous programming and designing efficient database
services for cloud-based
performance optimization. schemas for high-performance
deployment and scaling.
Django (Expert) – Deep experience
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with Django frameworks, including Docker – Containerization and
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MySQL – Managing and optimizing
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Django REST Framework for orchestration for development, relational databases, focusing on
building scalable APIs. testing, and deployment. scalability and reliability.
API Design – Designing and
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Infrastructure as Code –
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MongoDB – Experience with
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implementing RESTful APIs, Experience with AWS NoSQL databases, designing
ensuring scalability, security, and CloudFormation, Terraform for schema-less architectures for
performance. automating cloud infrastructure. dynamic data storage.

Asynchronous Task Management DevOps & CI/CD System Design & Performance
Celery – Designing and managing
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CI/CD Pipelines – Setting up
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Scalable System Design –
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asynchronous task queues, automated pipelines with Jenkins, Architecting high-traffic,
background jobs, and real-time GitLab, or AWS CodePipeline to distributed systems, ensuring high
processing. streamline code deployment. availability and fault tolerance.
Version Control – Expert in Git,
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Performance Optimization –
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Soft Skills managing codebases, and Profiling, refactoring, and
Problem-Solving – Strong
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collaborating in distributed teams. optimizing backend services for
analytical thinking, capable of high throughput and low latency.
solving complex issues in
production environments.
Collaboration – Proven experience
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working in distributed, remote
teams.