Aleksandr Melentiev
Co-Founder at Gravi Opus Studios, LLC
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Melentiev is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building web systems and consumer-facing products from startup scrappiness to enterprise delivery. As Co-Founder of Gravi Opus Studios in the San Francisco Bay Area, he leads development of consumer apps like Costco Companion while drawing on a long history of consulting for small businesses and nonprofits. His background spans senior web development at Gap Inc. and agency work at AKQA, where he shipped high-profile marketing sites and prototypes for brands like Nike and Xbox. Comfortable across backend systems, content workflows and infrastructure, he has hands-on history improving and maintaining open-source Ruby/Rails projects — notably enhancing messaging and security fixes in a community engine repository. Aleksandr pairs practical engineering with product curiosity, having founded Bootcamper.io to help newcomers navigate tech education. He combines data-center sysadmin experience and computer science training from UC Berkeley and City College of San Francisco to bridge ops and application development.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at UC BerkeleyComputer Science, Computer Science at City College of San Francisco
English, Russian
Github Skills (9)
activerecord10
caching10
mvc-architecture10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
data-integration9
sql-database9
databases9
git7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bborn/communityengine
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Adds basic social networking capabilities to your existing application, including users, blogs, photos, clippings, favorites, and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily focused on improving the application's messaging functionality by allowing lowercase recipient logins and fixing mass assignment issues. They made several updates to models and controllers related to messaging and categories. Further contributions included cleaning up cache sweepers and merging upstream changes, indicating a role in maintaining and improving the existing codebase's functionality and maintainability.
social-networknetworkingsocial-networkingcapabilitiesphotos
braincomb/netflix-continueplaying
Jan 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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