Ivan Klishch is an experienced Backend Software Engineer with more than a decade of experience working on a range of projects, from his own research and development to large-scale commercial applications. He is passionate about developing scalable, fast, and reliable applications and has a strong focus on Python stack technologies. Ivan's expertise lies in architecture, development, and support of highly available applications. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and a big fan of cloud computing and AWS, using these technologies both professionally and as a hobby. Ivan has experience with other languages and technologies like Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and KVM virtualization. In his free time, he works on his ESP8266-based home automation and sensors, and his Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster. Ivan has worked for Datadog as a Software Engineer and was previously a Staff Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer at JW Player. He was also a Lead Engineer at Wyng and worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Recyclebank, PHP Software Engineer at Maven Research, eBay / Marktplaats.nl at Lohika, and Lohika. Before his career in software engineering, Ivan was a Linux system administrator at Smart-S. Ivan studied Computer Science at Ternopil State 'Ivan Pul'uj' Technical University.