Aleksandr Bochev
Principal Software Engineer at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAleksandr Bochev is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building and testing robust backend and full-stack systems across e-commerce and payments. He has progressed from hands-on system administration and QA automation to architecting PCI-DSS-compliant payment microservices and leading engineering efforts at Zalando and Daimler Mobility. Aleksandr blends deep practical knowledge of Kotlin/Java, Spring/Micronaut, Kafka and Kubernetes with a strong background in test automation and DevOps, having built test frameworks and CI/CD infrastructure earlier in his career. He’s comfortable operating across the stack—designing APIs, deploying on AWS EKS, and improving production reliability—while also mentoring teams and shaping QA best practices. An asset often overlooked is his long-term experience maintaining both infrastructure and application-level testing, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on system health and observability.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Java Development, 4.9, Java Development, 4.9 at The Academy of Information and Telecommunication Technologies (ICT Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia)Bachelor's degree, Automated Syste, 4,65, Bachelor's degree, Automated Syste, 4,65 at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (200)
polling10
computer-vision10
infrared10
orm10
novnc10
jenkins10
python10
docker-container10
mysql10
raycast10
telegram-bot-api10
google-photos10
jitpack10
selenium10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
red-avtovo/r_trans_bot_rs
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Transmission RPC client bot for Telegram
Contributions:2 reviews, 86 commits, 37 PRs in 2 years 6 months
telegram-botrpctransmissionbot-clienttransmission-rpc
red-avtovo/xmppBotTest
Jul 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
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