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Bryne Carruthers

Senior Backend Python Engineer

I build secure, scalable backend systems - clean APIs, strong data models, reliable deployments, and the operational pieces (testing, CI/CD, observability, security hardening) that keep them stable in production. Please check out my portfolio and online resume.

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Featured Backend Case Studies

Jim Hands Auction

Designed and built a custom content management system using Python/Django, with over 100,000 vistors a year; featuring responsive design, SEO optimization, and enhanced security measures with an A+ rating on Mozilla Observatory.

Client: Jim & Judy Hands

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Vajrayana AI Chat

Vajrayana AI Chat lets the user converse with virtual Tibetan Buddhist teachers and tulkus! Lets the user create their own Experts to converse with; add Documents to create a knowledgebase by uploading Documents (text files, PDFs, web pages, & transcripts automatically generated from Youtube video urls); and view their previous Conversations. Created using the OpenAI Chat Completions API, with vector-based similarity search for context retrival.

Client: Mary Ferguson

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Therapeutic Healing Arts Website

A Custom content management system for an acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine service business (made with Python/Django).

Client: Valerie Dyer, Registered Acupuncturist

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Pasture Valley Marketplace

Pasture Valley Marketplace is an easy to use content management system and e-commerce web app that helps connect local producers to their customers. Dynamically generates content without knowing any HTML or CSS. Easily generates reports on revenue and inventory.

Client: Blairich Farms

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What I do

I have 7+ years of professional Python experience (including automation and production systems) and 5+ years owning end-to-end delivery for client/product builds. Please check out my online resume and website portfolio.

Python & Django

Proficient in object-oriented and functional Python programming paradigms. Fluent in Django 4. Also comfortable with data-science libraries (Pandas, Matplotlib, Sci-kit-learn); building REST APIs with Django REST Framework and FastAPI; and testing with Pytest and Selenium.

AWS & Terraform

Experienced in deploying secure, scalable and cost-efficient applications to AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB) using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

ES6 JavaScript, Typescript, React & Node JS

Proficient in ES6 Javascript, Typescript, React & Node JS for creating single page applications and full stack applications.

Docker, Git/Github & Github Actions

Containerization using Docker & Docker Compose; Version control with Git/Github; Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD) using Github Actions.

MySQL & PostgreSQL

Proficient in native SQL and robust relational database design.

HTML, CSS

Proficient in HTML 5 (including semantic markup and accessible web design) and CSS 3 (including responsive mobile-first design, flex-box, css grid & BEM).