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Ievgenii Svyryd

Software Developer · Problem Solver · Open Source Contributor

Engineer turned developer. After 12 years of designing industrial machinery and leading engineering teams, I now build software with the same precision and attention to detail. I specialize in Python, Django, and Wagtail, creating web applications that are reliable, maintainable, and built to last. Currently based in Canada, open to challenging projects worldwide.

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Apr 26, 2026 Architecture Django Frontend

Wagtail Multisites and a Theming Crisis: How wagtail-visual-themes Was Born

After shipping my fifth Wagtail multisite app and copy-pasting yet another tangle of brand colour overrides, I finally extracted the theming layer into its own package. This is the story of why every Wagtail project ends up reinventing theming - and the small, opinionated library that stopped me from doing it a sixth time.

Apr 04, 2026 Architecture Django

Blueprints: How I Replaced Hundreds of Templates with Python Dictionaries

A blueprint system that turns Python dictionaries into complete admin pages - tables, filters, forms, actions, permissions, and menus - with zero HTML templates. How a decorator, a TypedDict, and a JSON contract eliminated an entire class of repetitive frontend work.

Apr 04, 2026 Architecture Django

Django Admin Is the Most Underappreciated Framework Feature in All of Web Development

Django admin renders full CRUD interfaces from model definitions alone. Most frameworks cannot even dream of this. Here is why it changed how I think about UI, how it inspired a production schema-driven form engine, and why the industry sleeps on the best idea in web development.

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