KYLE PONCE
01/05 Entrance
Room 01 — Entrance

KylePonce

Senior Python Developer Open to new projects

I design and build backend systems, APIs and data platforms in Python — clean, typed, observable code that keeps running when the traffic doesn’t stop.

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Kyle Ponce
Kyle Ponce · PortraitZgorzelec, PL
Room 02 — Profile

Python,
built to
last.

10+Years in Python
40+Services shipped
99.95%Uptime owned

I’m a senior Python developer with more than a decade of experience turning messy business problems into dependable software. My work sits where product meets infrastructure: high-throughput APIs, event-driven services and data pipelines that teams can actually reason about.

I care about type-safe code, honest tests and systems that explain themselves through good logs and metrics. I enjoy mentoring, running pragmatic code reviews and leading migrations — from monoliths to services, from Python 2 to modern async Python.

Toolkit

CorePython 3.12, asyncio, typing & mypy, Pydantic, pytest, Hypothesis
Web & APIsFastAPI, Django, DRF, GraphQL, gRPC, Celery
DataPostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Airflow, Polars, pandas, dbt
PlatformDocker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus
Room 03 — Works

Selected
works

Four pieces from recent years — production systems where Python carried real load and real money.

No. 01 — 2025

Ledgerline

Event-sourced payment reconciliation engine matching bank statements against internal ledgers in near real time, with an auditable replay log.

4M transactions reconciled per day
FastAPIKafkaPostgreSQLasyncio
No. 02 — 2024

Tidepool

A data platform rebuild: Airflow orchestration, Polars transforms and dbt models replacing a fragile collection of cron scripts.

Nightly batch cut from 6 h to 48 min
AirflowPolarsdbtAWS
No. 03 — 2023

Sentinel

Async observability agent that streams service metrics, flags anomalies with lightweight statistical models and opens incidents automatically.

Mean time to detect down 63%
asyncioPrometheusscikit-learngRPC
No. 04 — Open source

pyrite-config

A small, fully typed configuration library: layered sources, secrets backends and validation errors humans can read.

1.2k GitHub stars, 30+ contributors
PydantictypingpytestPyPI
Room 04 — Career

A decade
in production.

2021 — Present

Senior Python Developer

Fintech platform · Remote
  • Lead backend engineer for payments and reconciliation services in FastAPI and Kafka.
  • Drove migration of a Django monolith into 12 typed, independently deployed services.
  • Mentor five engineers; own code-review standards and on-call practices.
2017 — 2021

Python Developer

Logistics SaaS · Wrocław
  • Built route-optimisation APIs serving 300+ enterprise customers.
  • Introduced Celery-based job processing and cut infrastructure costs by 35%.
  • Led the Python 2 → 3 migration with zero customer-facing downtime.
2014 — 2017

Junior → Backend Developer

Digital agency · Hybrid
  • Delivered Django e-commerce and CMS projects for retail and media clients.
  • Automated deployments with Docker and CI, shrinking release time from days to minutes.
  • Wrote the team’s first testing guidelines and coverage gates.
B.Sc. Computer Science — Wrocław University of Science and Technology AWS Certified Developer — Associate Languages — English, Polish
Room 05 — Exit & contact

Let’s build
something
solid.

Backend architecture, a data platform that needs taming, or a team that needs a senior Python hand — I’d like to hear about it.

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Name
Kyle Ponce
Address
Andrzeja Struga 7
59900 Zgorzelec
Poland
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