Dmitry Arkhipenko

Backend Developer

Moscow, Russian Federation

Summary

Team lead at 24h.tv, transferring ideas to reality scince 2017

Languages:

English, Russian

Favorite Python Packages:

Django Rest Framework, Scrapy, httpx, requests, ipython

Experience

[Dec 2021 -- now] Team lead at 24h.tv

Leading a team of tech-savvy individuals. Making bleeding-edge IPTV.

Mostly doing following stuff:

  • Managing half-remote team
  • Sprint planning
  • Task decomposition
  • Inbox processing
  • 1-to-1's
  • Architecture design
  • Supervising subsystems development

Achieving following goals:

  • Splitting monolith into microservices where it's up to produce less tech debt;
  • Designing future of a whitelabel IPTV platform;
  • Solving complex technical issues;
  • Assigning tasks to the team members with respect to strong sides of their personality.

 

[Aug 2019 -- Dec 2021] Backend Developer at 24h.tv

Making a bleeding-edge IPTV platform. Django and DRF with a couple of Python-based Microservices.

Mostly doing following stuff:

  • Telecommuting and working on-site;
  • Making complicated buisness logics appear on the RESTful APIs;
  • Befriending Microservices with each other;
  • Working with ORM and optimising DB requests to reach performance requirements;
  • Developing subsytems and microservices from scratch.

Achieving following goals:

  • Making critical parts of the complete system work together;
  • Decreasing request serving times in the most loaded APIs endpoints;
  • Analysing requirements and developing subsytems for business demands.

 

[Feb 2017 -- Aug 2019] Freelance Developer

Participating in various startup-like products using a lot of different tech.

Mostly doing following stuff:

  • Debugging complex solutions
  • Developing product requirements with clients
  • Designing systems from scratch

Skills

Backend Development, Celery, Django, Django REST Framework, Docker, Elasticsearch, Frontend Development, Fullstack Development, Git, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, REST, RabbitMQ, Redis, Scrapy, Test-Driven Development, Virtualenv, Web Development, Web Scraping

Joined: March 2022