Grigore Kushnir

Background

About Grigore Kushnir

Data Engineering & AI: • Implemented LLMs (OpenAI, BERT) by implementing Chatbots based on company documentation, listing builders, language translators • Built image generation tools for Amazon seller products by using AWS Bedrock (Titan, Stable Diffusion) • Experience with PostgreSQL, Snowflake, MySQL, SQLite, Clickhouse (including Cloud), MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, AWS RDS, AWS ElastiCache etc. • Experience with Airflow, Dagster, DBT both On-Premises and Cloud versions • Familiar with Data Mesh & Data Fabric concepts • Designed scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, performed data cleaning, data cataloging, and developed data lakes, data warehouses (lakehouses) Cloud & Infrastructure: • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate • Extensive experience with AWS services (S3, EC2, IAM, EKS, ECR, Fargate, MWAA, RDS, etc.) and Azure services (Blob Storage, App Services, VM, etc.) • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins • Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, LXC/LXD VirtualBox containerization • Experience with Ubuntu, CentOS, macOS • Experience with CircleCI, GitHub Actions and CI/CD best practices • Basic knowledge of Routing & Switching Web Frameworks & Backend Development: • Expert developer in Python and Ruby • Developed Plagiarism Detection and Scoring System for Scientific Publications using Python • Extensive experience with FastAPI, Flask Web Frameworks (Backend and Data Engineering projects) • Knowledgeable user of mypy, ruff/black and a supporter of Clean Code and insightful docstrings • Experience with Django/Django REST framework and adjacent web libraries • Experience with Ruby on Rails framework and adjacent web libraries, had experience with Sinatra • Experience with Scrapy framework • Experience with Celery, Sidekiq • Experience with RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, knowledge of IronMQ • Responsible and aware of importance of writing unit/feature(integration) tests with good knowledge of pytest, rspec, capybara, selenium and other testing tools • Basic knowledge of JS, HTML and CSS • Acquired management skills and knowledge of Agile methodologies while leading a core backend Ruby team at GovPredict