Aleksandr Kirsanov
Head Of Department at VK.com
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Kirsanov is a seasoned engineering leader with eight years of professional experience, currently heading a department at VK.com where he develops the KPHP compiler, developer tooling, and performance optimizations for a high-traffic platform. With a master's in Mathematics and Computer Science from Saint Petersburg State University and a background in freelancing and startups, he combines deep theoretical grounding with hands-on systems engineering and product instincts. He specializes in PHP compilation and runtime speedups, regularly tackling low-level optimization challenges that directly improve developer productivity and service performance. Based in St. Petersburg, Aleksandr brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach to scaling codebases and shipping robust developer tools.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State University
Github Skills (59)
phalcon10
user-friendly10
func10
plugin10
cryptocurrency10
php10
ton10
ethereum10
blockchain10
intellij-plugin10
monorepo10
compiler10
distcc10
smart-contracts10
phpstorm10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
VKCOM/kphpstorm
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
A PhpStorm plugin that makes IDE understand KPHP specifics
Contributions:30 reviews, 31 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 5 months
kphpphppluginphpstorm-pluginide
VKCOM/kphp-snippets
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Libraries written in PHP aimed to be compiled with KPHP
Contributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 1 month
kphpphpcompiled
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