Ilya Istomin

Fuel price intelligence pipeline: daily prices from ~11,500 Spanish gas stations (government API) and weekly benchmarks for 29 EU countries since 2005 (EU Oil Bulletin — HTML scraping + Excel parsing). PostgreSQL warehouse with idempotent loading and SQL marts, running daily on a VPS.

Python · PostgreSQL · SQLAlchemy · Docker · GitHub Actions

○ in progress — shipping this week

A peer-to-peer prediction market for esports — replacing the bookmaker with software: an escrow ledger for custody, order-book matching and parimutuel pools for price discovery, an optimistic oracle with a dispute window for result verification, and deterministic settlement for payouts.

FastAPI · SQLAlchemy 2 · PostgreSQL · WebSockets · React 19 · TypeScript · Docker Compose · pytest (139 tests)

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Interactive route-optimization demo: delivery points on a map → TSP heuristics (nearest neighbour, 2-opt) → visualized optimized routes. A public rebuild of the courier-logistics problem I solved at Abris.

TypeScript · react-leaflet · OpenStreetMap

○ in progress — shipping this week

Abris Vyatka — Data Engineer

Nov 2021 – Jul 2023 · Russia, hybrid

• Daily ETL pipeline scraping thousands of SKUs across three marketplaces; the pricing strategy it enabled contributed to ~3x weekly revenue growth.
• Company's first PostgreSQL database, replacing Excel for a 20–40 person team.
• Courier-logistics Telegram bot with GPS and TSP-based route optimization.
• Report generation time cut by 90%.

Freelance — Python / Data Developer

Aug 2023 – Present · Madrid / remote

• Backend and data-automation projects for inbound clients — async APIs (FastAPI), web scraping, OAuth2/JWT, Docker.

CNIPI STARK LLC — Software Engineering Intern

Feb – Mar 2026 · Remote

• Curricular internship, final grade 9.3/10.
• Configured Linux servers (SSH access, firewall rules) for the analytics team.
• Python scripts automating data extraction and report generation.
• Data processing with pandas for the commercial department.

CROC Inc. — Junior Systems Engineer

Sep – Nov 2021 · Moscow

• Linux server administration and networking in an enterprise integrator environment.