Hi! I am Aleksei.

For over 12 years, I have been helping startups grow and handle the technical issues that come with their growth.

I have always been passionate about technology and possess extensive knowledge in many IT-related areas.

I enjoy optimizing things. If something is running slowly or there's a memory leak, I can dive into it and help my colleagues solve the problem. This is because I understand how things work at a low level, and if I don't know something, I'm not afraid to read source code or documentation.

This isn't just related to technologies; I also like optimizing work processes. I fight cargo cults and reduce the number of unnecessary meetings (sometimes by introducing something new). My experience in working with a vast number of different companies, from small startups to large tech companies with thousands of employees, helps with this.

Although I prefer to work on technical issues, I am capable of managing people. I'm the one who helps the team communicate and stay focused when the team lead is on vacation. I also have experience in organizing people to build awesome products, such as the open-source Google Authenticator replacement SOTP Authenticator and a flashcard app for memorization called sAnki.

I have been working remotely for more than 12 years and possess good self-organization skills. My employers appreciate that I am a reliable and punctual person.

I live in Armenia 🇦🇲. I am a foodie, an armchair expert, and a former cat's slave. I enjoy games, anime, tech, politics, and stonks 🦧💎🤲🚀🌕.

• Ruby (Rails/Sinatra)
• Golang
• PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Redis
• Kafka, NATS
• Docker

• MongoDB, Elasticsearch
• K8s, Docker Swarm, Ansible
• Basic frontend skills: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript
• Basic ML skills
• Python, C, amd64 Linux assembler
• Unreal Engine
• Scrum

Tver State University, Specialist in Computer Security 2006 – 2012

I thoroughly enjoy working in an international and multicultural team. It's an amazing experience that enhances both personal growth and team collaboration. Some of the things I've accomplished here:

• Led strategic optimizations of the AWS infrastructure, significantly improving cost-efficiency, reducing latency, and enhancing performance.
• Restored failed tests by writing scripts that removed crashing tests, fixed as many tests as possible, and skipped failed tests.
• Upgraded old, clunky technologies to newer, more secure ones. This not only improved security but also made everyone's work a lot easier.
• Addressed code and database performance issues, speeding up some requests by up to 1000 times.
• Automated routine tasks (e.g., updating expired keys for third-party services, debugging scripts, etc.).
• Solved countless timezone and daylight-saving issues.
• Worked on adding new business features, such as the ability to compare different stats over time periods.

SberMarket (https://sbermarket.ru) is the largest e-grocery in Russia with millions of customers, making it highly loaded (currently at 500k+ RPM and rapidly growing).

What I did there:

• Developed payment-related features.
• Integrated third-party services.
• Optimized performance. I played the role of a DB expert in my team, keeping an eye on other performance-related issues.
• Streamlined work processes, reducing the time our team spent on unnecessary activities.

I maintained a job board with millions of users (https://vk.com work tab) and multiple services (mostly Ruby, communicating via NATS/NATS Streaming).

Some of the interesting tasks I handled:

• Wrote a geo service with Golang and a spherical geometry library (s2).
• Added reading from DB replicas.
• Optimized SQL query performance and worked on optimizing the Query Optimizer.

I supported and improved various apps (https://ruby-challenge.com, https://revo.ru).

https://fitnessonline.me

I supported and improved the backend for the fitness online mobile app. This included XMPP chat, push notifications, and miscellaneous bug fixes.

https://tarifer.ru

I developed APIs, conducted research, scripting, software architecture design, DevOps, and web page parsing.

created my own docker based deployment system

https://snp.agency

I developed APIs, conducted research, scripting, software architecture design, and iOS development.

I created websites, wrote desktop applications, wrote plugins, fixed bugs in legacy code, and provided consulting services (e.g., Upwork).

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• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: +374 41133701