Elena Gusarevich

@Hel

Python Backend Developer / Python Automation Engineer

Python Backend Developer / Python Automation Engineer focused on backend automation, security workflows, API integrations, scraping infrastructure, and production Python systems.

About

Experienced in building modular backend services, async processing pipelines, threat intelligence enrichment workflows, anti-bot automation, and resilient analytics systems. Recently delivered Microsoft Sentinel automation projects involving MSTICPy, KQL orchestration, Azure ML notebooks, cross-domain correlation, Isolation Forest anomaly detection, SHAP explainability, and incident automation workflows. Strong in API debugging, HTTP session analysis, clean architecture, maintainable business logic, and production-ready automation solutions.

Career

Experience: 3 years

Experience

Python Automation Engineer | Backend Developer

Private Practice

Jan 2024 — Present

Builds Python automation and backend systems, including Microsoft Sentinel phishing analysis and threat-hunting workflows.

• Built automation systems for data extraction, API integrations, background processing, and structured reporting. • Developed scraping and browser automation workflows for dynamic websites, protected flows, and API-based data extraction. • Investigated complex request issues involving sessions, cookies, headers, payload structure, redirects, and browser-vs-script differences. • Deployed and maintained Linux VPS environments using Docker, Systemd services, background workers, and MongoDB/PostgreSQL storage.

Art Lead 3D | Senior Technical Artist

NDA Online PC Game / Game Studios

Jan 2022 — Oct 2024

Led a 15-person game production team and built Python tools to automate 3D asset workflows.

• Developed Python tools for Blender and Unreal Engine to batch-process assets and reduce manual production work. • Managed a cross-functional team of 15 specialists, including hiring, task estimation, documentation, and delivery control. • Improved production workflows between artists, designers, and technical teams.

Education

Artistic Forging (Third-class Artisan)

Russian Academy of Crafts

2013 — 2014

Selected projects

Ritma — SaaS-Style Notification Backend

Rebuilt an MVP into a modular backend platform with repository pattern, service layer, isolated adapters, and background workers. Implemented timezone-safe event modeling, notification orchestration, partner-aware flows, custom messaging logic, recipient preferences, and phase-based delivery rules. Designed idempotent notification handling to prevent duplicate events and maintain consistency ac...

SMS Verification & Anti-Bot Bypass System

Engineered a browser automation solution for protected registration flows using SeleniumBase UC Mode and custom Chrome extensions. Handled proxy authentication, CAPTCHA-solving services, SMS verification APIs, and React SPA input events. Improved automation reliability by emulating realistic browser behavior and debugging request/session issues.

Microsoft Sentinel Threat Hunting Notebooks

Built Python analytics components for Microsoft Sentinel XDR threat hunting workflows in Azure ML. Implemented cross-domain correlation, KQL utilities, threat intelligence enrichment, and anomaly-detection support tooling.

Skills

Python 3.10+AsyncIOOOPClean ArchitecturerequestshttpxREST APIssessionscookiesheadersSeleniumBase (UC Mode)Playwrightbrowser automationscraping infrastructureHTTP session debuggingFastAPIasync workersservice layer architecturerepository patternbackground jobs