Senior Full Stack Engineer — Python + TypeScript, fintech & healthtech (Remote, UTC+2)
- GitHub: github.com/aabele
- Email: aabele@gmail.com
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Senior Full Stack Engineer with 10+ years shipping production systems across fintech and healthtech. I specialize in Python/Django backends and React/TypeScript frontends for regulated domains where security, reliability, and third-party integrations matter — payments, patient portals, and biomedical data-sharing platforms.
Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript Backend: Django, REST, PostgreSQL, webhooks Frontend: React, Redux, Vue.js, Sass Infra / ops: AWS, Docker, Linux, Ansible, Nginx, CI (Jenkins, GitLab) Practices: TDD, design patterns, OOP, agile, web scraping (Selenium, Scrapy)
Latvian (native), English (fluent — 10+ years in UK-led teams), Russian (spoken)
Senior Full Stack Engineer @ decta.com
June 2021 – present
Full-stack development on DECTA's payment processing platform.
- Built and maintain the JavaScript payform — the hosted checkout supporting cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and open banking
- Ship production features end-to-end: Django/Python backends, React + Redux + TypeScript frontends, Dockerized services
- Work within a monorepo serving multiple whitelabel deployments, each with its own branding and compliance constraints
- Also contributed to Decta Gateway and back-office tooling
Technology stack: TypeScript, React, Redux, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, REST, TDD, Sass
Full Stack Developer @ Children's Clinical University Hospital
September 2019 – June 2021
Designed and built the online patient self-service portal, giving patients and parents direct access to the hospital's clinical database.
- Implemented multi-provider authentication — SAML2 via latvija.lv, Latvian internet bank logins, and the eSignature service
- Integrated the portal with eVeseliba (national e-health system) and Microsoft Active Directory
- Enabled patients to download records, submit new documents, and fill clinical forms digitally
Technology stack: Python, Django, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, REST, TDD, Sass, LaTeX, Bootstrap
Full Stack Developer (Contract) @ longenesis.com
2020 (6 months)
Six-month contract on a biomedical platform for patient data sharing, digital consent, and communication between research institutions, patient organizations, and sponsors.
- Delivered backend APIs and frontend features in Python, Django, and Vue.js
- Tuned AWS cloud infrastructure and containerized services with Docker
Technology stack: Python, Django, Vue.js, AWS, Docker, Node.js
Full Stack Developer @ prezi.com / infogram.com
2019 – 2020
Migrated legacy Backbone.js code into typed, tested React components and shipped new full-stack features.
- Replaced under-documented, buggy frontend modules with TypeScript React components covered by React Testing Library
- Built new frontend functionality and matching Django HTTP endpoints
Technology stack: Python, Django, React, TypeScript, Backbone, AWS, React Testing Library
Full Stack Developer / DevOps @ sefinance.lv / credify.lv
2018 – 2019
Transformed a financial-services platform's legacy codebase into reliable, maintainable software.
- Added automated tests and refactored core modules to reduce regression risk
- Wrote documentation to replace tribal knowledge
- Managed infrastructure with Ansible on AWS
Technology stack: Django, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Ansible, REST, webhooks, AWS, Docker
Python / JavaScript Developer @ omni-digital.co.uk
2016 – 2018
Remote Django development for a UK agency — building client websites, debugging legacy code, and provisioning/maintaining DigitalOcean droplets (CentOS, Ubuntu) with Ansible.
Technology stack: Django, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Ansible, Linux
Python / JavaScript Developer @ swiftserve.com
2012 – 2015
Hired to build a YouTube-style video platform, then joined the agile team maintaining and extending it — bug fixes, new features, refactoring, scrum, planning poker.
- Wrote well-documented, tested, standards-compliant code
- Test coverage via unit tests, integration tests, Selenium, and Jasmine.js
Technology stack: Python, Django, REST, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Backbone.js, shell scripting, Jenkins CI, Grunt.js
2011 – 2012
Built a number of websites as a freelance developer. buvlaukums.lv is still online.
2011
Short stint on pure frontend web development.
Technology stack: Django, PostgreSQL, jQuery, web scraping (lxml)
2005 – 2011
IT consultant and network administrator for sworn notaries and their employees (~500 users). Built a Django-based corporate intranet (reports and statistics) and administered a Postfix email server.
2005 – 2006 · Riga Technical University (Riga Business School)
2001 – 2005 · University of Latvia
Beekeeping, dogs, music, welding, woodworking, wildlife.
As a side project I've been exploring how to monitor temperature, humidity, and other environment characteristics inside a beehive — placed deep in a northern forest without reliable power — and transmit the recorded data over mobile networks to remote storage.