Aleksandr Efimov is a senior backend developer with 17+ years of experience building high-load, fintech, and e-commerce platforms, including systems serving 100M+ daily users and handling $785B+ monthly trading volume. He specializes in PHP (Laravel, Symfony) and platform engineering—optimizing ingestion pipelines, caching layers, and microservice boundaries to markedly improve throughput and reliability. His work spans payments, crypto settlement flows, and enterprise auth integrations, and he’s led modernization efforts for AutoTrader.ca and a dealer listings network integrated with 100+ partners. Currently bootstrapping ApplyWave, a SaaS for job seekers that combines Laravel, React and LLM pipelines with anti-hallucination safeguards and full-product ownership from architecture to CI/CD. An active open-source contributor and hands-on mentor, Aleksandr focuses code reviews on teachable improvements rather than just fixes. He pairs deep production experience with a practical, data-driven approach to performance and operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Auto mechanic, Technical repair and maintenance of vehicles, Auto mechanic, Technical repair and maintenance of vehicles at Ivanovo Road-Transport College
Engineer, Computer Software Engineering, Engineer, Computer Software Engineering at Institute of Business, Information Technology and Finance
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Aleksandr Efimov - Senior Software Developer at Self Employed