Aleksandr Hristoforov
VP Of Engineering at Sumsub
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAleksandr Hristoforov is a seasoned engineering leader with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering highly available, scalable systems and leading cross-functional teams. As VP of Engineering and former Principal Engineer at large social platforms, he has architected exabyte-scale blob storage, a Cassandra-based NewSQL database, news feed engines and video/music infrastructure that serve hundreds of millions of users. He blends deep systems expertise—from low-level storage and databases to APIs, React frontends and ML infrastructure—with strong operational focus on reliability, performance tuning and architectural decision-making. Known for mentoring engineers and improving site reliability, he consistently translates hard technical problems into production-ready solutions. Based in Riga, Latvia, he favors tackling the most challenging infrastructure problems and has a track record of building foundational platforms rather than just point solutions.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MASTER OF NATURAL SCIENCES, Computer Science, MASTER OF NATURAL SCIENCES, Computer Science at Transporta un Sakaru InstitutsBachelor of Natural Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Natural Science, Computer Science at Rigas Tehniska Universitate
Github Skills (2)
cassandra7
apache6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
odnoklassniki/apache-cassandra
Apr 2012 - Oct 2016
Fork of apache-cassandra used at odnoklassniki.
Contributions:32 commits in 4 years 6 months
odnoklassnikiapachecassandraapache-cassandra
devconsulting-lv/landing
Feb 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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