Aliaksei Kankou

Lead Full-Stack Engineer & Cloud Architect

Lead Full-Stack Engineer and Cloud Architect with a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering and 15+ years of experience. My experience spans building products from 0 to 1, modernizing legacy systems, scaling production infrastructure, and leading migrations — across startups, mid-sized firms, and enterprises. Specializing in Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Architecture, and AI Engineering — including agentic AI systems, LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and model fine-tuning.

Technical Skills

Languages Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Bash, SQL

Frontend React.js, Material-UI, Next.js

Backend FastAPI, Node.js, NestJS, Django, Flask, asyncio, REST, SSE, OAuth2

AI / ML LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Fine-tuning, RAG, AI Agents, Function/Tool Calling, MCP Tools, Prompts, LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI, Pinecone, Milvus

Cloud AWS (7x certified), GCP (certified), Azure, DigitalOcean

DevOps & Infrastructure Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Ansible, Flux, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI

Databases PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j, MySQL, DocumentDB

Messaging & Streaming Apache Kafka, NATS JetStream

Observability Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, ELK (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fluentd)

Data & Workflow Apache Airflow (DAGs), Cromwell, Nextflow, ETL, Streaming pipelines

Architecture Microservices, System Design, Cloud Architecture, IaC, DSL Design, Monolith decomposition

Testing pytest, Jest, mypy

Soft Skills

Team & Tech Lead (teams up to 20)

Architecture & system design

Pre-sales & Statements of Work

Agile / Scrum

Mentoring junior developers

Cross-functional collaboration

Client communication & requirements gathering

Certifications

AWS

7x — DevOps Pro, SA Pro, Security, Data Analytics, Developer, SysOps, SA Associate

GCP

Associate Cloud Engineer

Kubernetes

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Terraform

Associate (HCTAO-002)

Python

PCAP-31-03, PCEP-30-02

Blockchain

Certified Blockchain Developer – Ethereum

View all certificates on Credly →

Links

LinkedIn → GitHub → Email → Credly →