Alexey Grunichev, Developer in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Alexey Grunichev

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Software Developer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Toptal member since September 8, 2020

Expertise
Back-end DevelopersPythonSQLDjangoGitDockerOpenAIGPT-4PostgreSQLMySQLUbuntuJavaScriptAWS
Bio

Alexey is a software engineer with more than 15 years of hands-on experience in web development. With a robust understanding of all modern approaches and time-proven solutions, Alexey excels at building projects from scratch and updating legacy code according to the latest standards. Alexey is particularly interested in the web, back-end development, databases, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML).

Portfolio

RowdMap
DevOps, Django REST Framework, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, MongoDB...
SPSoft Group LLC
MongoDB, JavaScript, Ubuntu, MySQL, Git, PHP, Django, Python, Back-end, HTML...
Uprawlenie Delami LLC
SQL, C#, Back-end

Experience

  • Back-end - 20 years
  • Python - 15 years
  • Django - 13 years
  • PostgreSQL - 11 years
  • Docker - 8 years
  • Django REST Framework - 5 years
  • React - 5 years
  • MongoDB - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Ubuntu, PostgreSQL, Python, Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS, OpenAI API

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed was code for a startup that eventually evolved into a solid IT business.

Work Experience

Senior Software Developer

2011 - 2020
RowdMap
  • Worked for RowdMap, a startup that was eventually acquired by Cotiviti LLC for $100 million.
  • Developed an app that was (and still is) in use by the business for almost ten years.
  • Created analytics tools with a unique proprietary methodology for the optimization of the US healthcare system.
  • Constructed a framework for querying the database and generating reports.
Technologies: DevOps, Django REST Framework, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, MongoDB, JavaScript, Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, SQL, Django, PostgreSQL, Python, React, Back-end, Web Scraping, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), APIs, REST APIs, CSS, HTML, Celery, Django ORM, API Integration, RESTFul APIs

Senior Software Developer

2008 - 2011
SPSoft Group LLC
  • Developed a project for collecting, analyzing, and forecasting financial information by manufacturers and suppliers (millions of positions).
  • Developed the Kaiser Permanente "Belly Laugh" line. It's a quiz-like application integrated with main Kaiser's (big healthcare provider in the US) services via web services.
  • Created RowdMap's MVP that was successfully evolved into a startup (see the next job section).
Technologies: MongoDB, JavaScript, Ubuntu, MySQL, Git, PHP, Django, Python, Back-end, HTML, Django ORM

Software Engineer

2005 - 2008
Uprawlenie Delami LLC
  • Worked on a compliance system for banks' security departments.
  • Created stored procedures to search for information and generating reports.
  • Worked with large datasets (more than 100 million main records and related datat).
Technologies: SQL, C#, Back-end

Software Engineer

2004 - 2005
Nika LLC
  • Worked on multiple purpose online-store engines with back-office integrations.
  • Contributed to the development of a high-load application with 10,000+ unique visitors every day.
  • Improved a web-application integration with a back-office which reduced the regular sync time about 5x.
Technologies: MySQL, Firebird, PostgreSQL, PHP, Back-end

Experience

Network Intelligence

Cotiviti's Network Intelligence solution helps payers and providers collaborate to create and manage value-based healthcare delivery and payment. It provides a leading methodology for calculating what is considered to be high-value care, using the Dartmouth Atlas, Choosing Wisely, and other academic research, as well as Medicare claims data (Parts A, B, and D).

ROLE
I worked as a senior software engineer handling the back end.

TECHNOLOGIES
Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS

TeachBeach

TeachBeach is a web application for life-long students. It allows users to book classes and proceed to a credit card payment page for purchases and subscriptions.

ROLE
I worked as a back-end developer.

TECHNOLOGIES
Python, Django, PostgreSQL

Education

1999 - 2004

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering

St. Petersburg State Transport University - Saint Petersburg, Russia

Certifications

SEPTEMBER 2020 - PRESENT

Building Batch Data Pipelines on GCP

Coursera

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Django ORM, React, REST APIs, Stripe, Stripe API, OpenAI API, Vue 2, Vuex, Vue

Tools

Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Git, Celery, Apache Airflow, NativeScript-Vue

Languages

Python, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP, C#

Frameworks

Django, Django REST Framework, Vuetify

Platforms

Docker, Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Mailgun

Paradigms

DevOps

Storage

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, Firebird, Amazon DynamoDB

Other

Back-end, APIs, OpenAI, OpenAI GPT-4 API, Gemini, API Integration, RESTFul APIs, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Data Processing, Web Scraping

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