Domen Ipavec
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Komenda, Kamnik, Slovenia
Toptal member since February 26, 2020
Domen started his career at Zemanta as a full-stack developer working primarily with Go, Python, and JavaScript. Later, he joined Google as a site reliability engineer, worked with Python and Go, set up monitoring and alert systems, and was on call for several internal storage systems. Domen excels at projects involving back-end services and technical challenges where he’s learning something new and can make an impact.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux - 8 years
- Python - 8 years
- Go - 5 years
- PostgreSQL - 4 years
- Django - 4 years
- JavaScript - 4 years
- Rust - 1 year
- React - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Kubernetes, Docker, Bash, Linux, Angular, Django, Python, Go, Rust
The most amazing...
...system I've worked on was a distributed system for distributing signed binaries. It was written in Go and full of wonderfully complex asynchronous code.
Work Experience
Lead Full-stack Developer
Kucha
- Led a small team of developers in developing a Go back end and React native application.
- Developed a Go back end for Stripe Connect payment integration.
- Worked on a React Native application and developed several features, including a notification system.
- Worked on continuous integration and deployment of Go back end on DigitalOcean and React Native application through Expo using GitHub Actions.
Go Developer
Reddit, Inc.
- Migrated the existing metrics, dashboards, and alerts using Prometheus Monitoring Tools.
- Optimized the existing regex-based Go keyword performance and achieved a speed 100x faster.
- Worked on various development projects in Go microservices.
Back-end Developer
Epic Design Labs
- Developed a Django REST Framework API back end for a React app that served web crawling results.
- Integrated Django with the Stripe API for subscription payments.
- Developed a web crawler in Go using SQS for async triggers from Django.
- Set up the AWS environment using Terraform and an automatic build and deployment pipeline using GitHub Actions.
Site Reliability Engineer
- Optimized the performance of Python and Go services.
- Designed and implemented monitoring and alerts for several distributed storage services.
- Wrote Python scripts for the system administration of Linux systems.
- Implemented features for a NetApp automation service written in Go.
- Developed several features for a backup service written in Python and Go with Google Cloud as a back end.
- Implemented an async FUSE client written in Go for a distributed file system.
- Carried a pager for several storage-related services.
- Migrated several services from Python 2 to Python 3.
Full-stack Developer
Zemanta
- Developed real-time bidding advertising software written in Go.
- Built a Hadoop-based data-processing pipeline written in Go.
- Worked as a full-stack developer on a one-page analytics application written in Django and AngularJS.
- Constructed a REST API using the Django REST framework.
- Linked a data synchronization system to third-party APIs based on Celery.
- Built a testing pipeline for the front-end and back-end system using Jenkins.
- Worked on a chat-based deployment system written in Python with Fabric to Docker and Docker Compose environment hosted on AWS.
- Implemented performance improvement for complex Django queries and implemented caching.
- Contributed to the migration of an existing data pipeline to PySpark.
Experience
Zemanta Platform
https://www.zemanta.com/Blog Application Written in Go
https://camino.ipavec.net/Education
Master's Degree in Electronics
University of Ljubljana - Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bachelor's Degree in Physics
University of Ljubljana - Ljubljana, Slovenia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Google Maps, Fabric, Stripe API, Stripe, jQuery, PySpark, BigCommerce API, React
Tools
Tmux, Vim Text Editor, Git, Celery, Terraform, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Jenkins, Travis CI, CircleCI, Grafana
Languages
Go, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Regex, Bash, Python 3, TypeScript, C++, C, Scala, Rust
Frameworks
Django, Gorm, Angular, gRPC, Django REST Framework, AngularJS, Flask, Flutter, Hadoop, Spark, Apache Spark, React Native
Paradigms
REST, DevOps, Testing, Microservices
Platforms
Docker, Linux, Ubuntu, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Android, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google App Engine, DigitalOcean
Storage
Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud SQL, MySQL, Google Cloud Datastore, Memcached, NetApp
Other
Regular Expressions, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), CSV, Algorithms, Web Crawlers, GitHub Actions, Web Development, Prometheus
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