Илья

ILLIA VOLKOV
Python Developer

Lviv, Ukraine | LinkedIn | Tg - @immmort4 | [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | Github

SUMMARY
Result-driven developer with over a 5.5 years of commercial experience building systems
using Python, Django/DRF, and PostgreSQL. Proficient in Docker, Git and AWS for cloud
infrastructure. Experienced in designing LLM-driven multi-agent systems, integrating vector
search, RAG, and real-time AI workflows using modern open-source and cloud-based AI
tools. Strong in React/Next.js for frontend integration, ensuring end-to-end functionality.
Experienced in cross-functional teamwork, delivering solutions that align with business needs
and deadlines. Eager to apply my skills to deliver value-driven results.

SKILLS

Python | Django | DRF | FastAPI | SOLID | PostgreSQL | Alembic | SQLAlchemy | Redis |
Docker | Git | Pandas | Pydantic | Aiohttp | Flask | AWS | HTML | CSS | JS | TS | React |
Nextjs | Tailwind | Linux | Kafka | RabbitMQ | Celery | NGINX | LangChain | Elasticsearch |
Kibana | ML | NLP | Selenium | BS4 | B2 English | Asyncio | CI/CD | OOP | Playwright |
Asyncio | REST | HuggingFace | Langraph | Langsmith | S3 | SQS | SNS | Claude | LLM |
EXPERIENCE

Backend Developer at HUMA Mar, 2026 - Sep, 2026
HUMA - Healthcare data and digital health platform
Contributed to a large-scale healthcare platform within a 150+ engineer organization,
working across a complex ecosystem of microservices and distributed systems.
Delivered backend features end-to-end, taking full ownership from technical design and
implementation through integration, testing, deployment, and production support.
Modernized and aligned legacy services with evolving healthcare requirements, improving
compatibility with new business and regulatory needs while maintaining existing system
functionality.
Designed and implemented backend solutions across multiple services, making
independent technical decisions and balancing maintainability, reliability, and delivery
requirements.
Collaborated extensively with cross-functional engineering teams to coordinate changes
across service boundaries, resolve integration dependencies, and deliver complex features
on schedule.
Worked on a platform supporting healthcare products with an estimated $70M+ in
revenue, contributing to systems where reliability and correctness were critical to business
operations.
Technologies: Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Microservices, Docker, AWS, REST
APIs, Git, CI/CD

Lead Developer at DQPT Jan, 2026 - March, 2026
MAKOR - Digital Survey Platform (project-based employment)
Architected and delivered the anti-fraud backend end-to-end as primary engineer.
Built a real-time scoring pipeline handling up to 2,000 RPS under stable load.
Achieved 95% fraud-detection precision through iterative detector tuning and threshold
calibration.
Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Faust, Docker, Pydantic

Backend Developer at ILS April, 2023 - Dec, 2025
ProVision - Side letter management solution
Collaborated within a 30-member cross-functional team on the ProVision project,
contributing to a platform with annual revenues exceeding $244M.
Enhanced data filtering performance by optimizing backend query logic and implementing
advanced indexing, resulting in a 40% reduction in response times.
Built and deployed 2 production-grade RAG pipelines, covering the full lifecycle from data
ingestion and retrieval to generation, with dedicated evaluation pipelines for measuring
and improving retrieval and generation quality.
Optimized database operations, lowering resource consumption and cutting
infrastructure costs by 20% while maintaining high performance.
Reduced CI/CD pipeline autotest runtime by 57% through targeted test suite
optimizations, cutting GitHub Actions build costs by 50% and accelerating deployment
cycles.
Technologies: Python, Django, FastAPI, DRF, PostgreSQL, Docker, Redis, Selenium, S3,
Lambda, ES2, Langraph, Langchain, Langsmith

Lead Developer at SSU April, 2021 - March, 2023
Energokodros - Real time energy consumption monitoring system
Developed a Django-based web app with DRF and jQuery frontend for flexible energy
data querying.
Initialized SCRUM, reducing communication overhead by ~50% and deploy frequency
by ~70%.
Designed complex multi-parameter data querying module, crafting raw PostgreSQL
queries for performance, bypassing ORM limitations.
Integrated Celery for asynchronous tasks in Django, like data aggregation, to maintain a
responsive user experience.
Architected a robust data processing system integrating Go and Python services with
Redis and Celery for asynchronous aggregation, ensuring continuous data ingestion
Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Celery, Git,
JavaScript, Linux