Volodymyr Ryzhkov

Experience

Aug 2019 — Present

Daiquiri Team · Remote

Architecture and full stack development across edtech, adtech, IoT and real estate — system design, AI integrations, and shipping end to end.

Designed and implemented the system architecture for a global edtech platform, covering personalised educational plans and coach payment integrations.
Built a scalable CMS that lets coaches publish and customise branded sites on subdomains or their own domains, which grew both platform and coach revenue.
Integrated AI for normalising complex course data and for speech-to-text processing, improving content quality and search.

Python · Django · FastAPI · Vue 3 · Nuxt 3 · PostgreSQL · AWS · Docker · OpenAI · speech-to-text models

Wrote the automated parsers that keep the content database populated, with reliable and continuous collection.
Implemented vocabulary support end to end: sourcing, normalising and storing word meanings, synonyms and contextual usage.
Architected the content database layer on Elasticsearch for high-speed full-text search across all textual data.

Python · Nuxt 2 · Vue 2 · PostgreSQL · Elasticsearch · web scraping · data normalisation

Built core subsystems for a proprietary adtech CRM managing thousands of Facebook ad accounts, with full campaign management.
A real-time notification system I built cut budget waste by 10% by flagging underperforming campaigns immediately.
An automation rule engine raised agency revenue by 15%, auto-launching successful campaign variants and handling support appeals for blocked accounts.

Python · Django · Nuxt 2 · Vue 2 · PostgreSQL · RabbitMQ · REST APIs · real-time notifications

Built an IoT stock monitoring system for retail shelves, so clients could optimise replenishment and analyse product movement.
Built the data collection pipelines and analytics dashboards behind it: real-time inventory tracking and anomaly detection, including temperature spikes.

Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · IoT protocols · data analytics

Wrote and maintained a set of real estate object parsers with a dedicated monitoring system around them.
Kept high-volume collection and normalisation running continuously for a B2B service handling thousands of property listings.

Python · Django · PostgreSQL · web scraping · data normalisation · monitoring systems

Jul 2024 — Dec 2025

NDA (Fintech industry) · Remote

Backend services and frontend interfaces for a fintech platform, inside a cross-functional engineering team.

Developed backend features and API endpoints for the fintech CRM platform in Python — Django, Django-Ninja, Pydantic.
Built and maintained frontend components in Vue 3, Nuxt 3 and PrimeVue, keeping interfaces responsive and intuitive.
Worked with the architecture team on system design and technical specifications.
Reviewed code and helped hold the team's quality bar.
Worked on infrastructure automation and deployment using Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Python · Django · Django-Ninja · Pydantic · Vue 3 · Nuxt 3 · PrimeVue · PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker · GitLab CI

Aug 2017 — Aug 2019

Boulevardier Group · Kyiv, Ukraine

Development and optimisation of custom CRM and internal management systems — where I learned full stack work and business process automation.

Built a rule-based data normalisation system for a price aggregator's pipeline. It handled over 98% of incoming objects automatically and cut manual item-merging time by more than half.
Worked across the stack in Python and JavaScript frameworks.
Worked with senior developers on database design and API development.

Python · Django · JavaScript · PostgreSQL · MySQL