Stepan Balashov

Tbilisi

telegram • email • linkedin • github

Experience:

  • Backend Developer at Avito

    №1 classified platform in the world

    03.2024-now

    • Creating item card platform
    • Optimizing observability and maintaining microservices
    • Creating and updating various API, including gRPC, REST

    • Creating corporate messenger bots

      Golang mostly

  • Lead Software Engineer at InfoTeCS

    Cybersecurity software corporation, Department of internal automation

    11.2022-03.2024

    • Led the team of 7 people
    • Transferred the core product to the modern and more suitable stack (Conan + Docker + fresh Debian)
    • Prepared the certification for several products
    • Reduced average build time for core product by more than 50%
    • Released ARM-compatible build for the core product, which allowed running on new hardware
      Python, Conan, Docker, Apache Ant/Ivy, GNU Make, TeamCity, Bash, etc.

  • Software Engineer at InfoTeCS

    Cybersecurity software corporation, Department of internal automation

    01.2021-10.2022

    • Designed and implemented a Python application, which not only made it possible to certify core products, but made the build process faster, easier, more generic and automated.
    • Set up static and composition analysis pipeline for products to increase code quality and eliminate security risks
    • Studied Ansible, created repo with playbooks, implemented IaaC approach, which significantly simplified administrative tasks
    • Administered TeamCity and optimized build pipelines
    • Integrated Ant/Ivy for flexibility and convenience
    • Made a transition from sandbox build environment to Docker
      Python, Apache Ant/Ivy, GNU Make, TeamCity, Ansible, Bash, etc.

  • Python backend developer at Sixhands

    Outsource, eCommerce, web studio

    09.2020-12.2020

    Projects:

    Activities:

    • Designed and implemeted all business logic and MVC structure
    • Created API with FastAPI and DRF
    • Single-handedly deployed and maintained all infrastructure and applications, set up the CI/CD
    • Took care of security
      Django, DRF, Docker Compose, nginx, Postgres, etc.

  • Java backend developer at ITMO University

    Internship, bootstrap and infrastucture for students

    07.2020-08.2020

    • Implemented Service Discovery in Docker Swarm cluster
    • Created and deployed auth microservice
      Java, Spring, Docker Swarm, Eureka, JWT

Pets and startups:

  • docs.photo

    A service to create photos for documents online based on neural networks

      Go, Python, gRPC, Docker, nginx
  • ideen

    Smart data network based on international patent database

      NLP, ML, CS, Python

Education:

Languages:

  • Russian, native
  • English, C1