Artem Bulatov
Senior Python engineer and tech lead with 7+ years building backend systems, ETL pipelines, and LLM applications.
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Senior Python engineer and tech lead with 7+ years building backend systems, ETL pipelines, and LLM applications. Led engineering teams and shipped platform capabilities end-to-end—from open-source contributions to production-grade services and async client libraries.
Currently leading engineering at Rove, driving analytics and retailer-assessment platforms. Open to senior backend, platform, or tech-lead roles with a fully remote setup.
- 7 years' experience
- Joined July 2026
Skills· 15
Languages
- EnglishAdvanced
- RussianFluent
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Education
- Energy & Utilities
- Financial Services
- Healthcare
- Media & Entertainment
Work experience· 5 roles
Led a cross-functional engineering team of 3 (senior frontend, mid backend, mid QA automation) shipping Rove's product analytics and retailer-assessment platform from zero to 60+ enterprise clients. Architected and shipped LLM chains across multiple groups, orchestrated via PromptHub over Anthropic, OpenAI, Vertex and xAI. Implemented vendor-aware request governance with per-provider RPM ceilings tracked in Redis via a custom ApiUsageCallbackHandler. Built a Temporal.io ETL platform integrating 23 external sources (~400 scheduled runs/day), spanning 44 workflow types and ~130 activity methods. Designed a caching framework to absorb redundant calls to non-idempotent external LLM/third-party APIs, reducing external API spend. Owned AWS infrastructure on an ~800 USD/month operating budget; platform supported a successful funding round (NDA) and now serves 60+ international clients.
Built FastAPI services and Bazel-managed modules across a monorepo. Designed Temporal.io ETL pipelines running 1,000+ workflow executions/day and replaced ad-hoc scripts with versioned, observable Temporal workflows, reducing manual maintenance effort by ~90% within 6 weeks. Developed DataBricks/Jupyter notebooks to produce cleaned datasets using SQL and DataBricks pandas-compatible DataFrame API. Designed PostgreSQL schemas and managed migrations; mentored junior engineers on Python and cloud deployment patterns (AWS/Azure).
Built billing backend with Django/DRF and Redis handling 5,000+ transactions/day. Integrated and maintained Stripe, PayPal, Braintree and PaymentsOS payment providers. Designed PostgreSQL schemas and Docker/Docker Compose infrastructure; mentored a junior engineer on backend Python and payments integration. Supported Turkish-market launch and rollout of group-ride features.
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