Summary
Aleksandr Ivanov is a Head of Engineering based in Warsaw with 9 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and leading teams across startups and research labs. He rose from C/C++ developer and systems architect roles into senior backend and leadership positions, shipping production services using Python, Django, C++, React, PostgreSQL, Redis and Docker. At OneSoil he combines strategic engineering leadership with active development, drawing on a strong low-level systems background that informs scalable backend design. His career shows a rare blend of embedded/desktop expertise (Qt, Boost, WPF) and modern web/cloud stacks, enabling pragmatic trade-offs between performance and developer velocity. An ITMO-trained engineer, he’s known for translating complex domain requirements into maintainable architectures while still contributing code.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at ITMO University
Russian, English