alexchirkov
Senior Backend / Cloud Engineer (Python, Gcp)
Senior Backend / Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and operating scalable, production-grade backend systems on Python and Google Cloud. Specialized in performance, reliability, and cost efficiency, with a strong track record of reducing delivery friction, stabilizing CI/CD, and improving observability.
Experience: 6 years
Yearly salary: $50,000
Hourly rate: $30
Nationality: 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
Residency: 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
Experience
Senior Backend Engineer
Pinata 2024 - 2025
Improved API performance by ~20% through backend and database optimization. Reduced DB load by 3×, resulting in ~15% lower infrastructure costs via Django ORM query optimization. Built Airflow-based background processing pipelines and optimized CI/CD, achieving 20% faster deployments and ~5% overall cost savings.
Skills
api
architecture
aws
backend
cloud-engineer
gcp
python
english