Aleksandr Pakhomov
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Pakhomov is a software engineer specializing in distributed systems with three years of professional experience and a deep background in C++ and optimizing compilers. He currently contributes to DFINITY in Zurich, focusing on back-end state management and simplification of complex blockchain codebases, including refactors in the widely known Internet Computer repository that removed unnecessary abstractions and improved maintainability. Previously he spent seven years at Google, bringing production-grade engineering practices to large-scale systems. Trained at MIPT in Computer Science with foundations in electronics and physics, he combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic code-level improvements. Colleagues describe him as someone who seeks challenging problems and prefers elegant, low-boilerplate solutions that make systems easier to reason about.
4 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Github Skills (9)
state-management10
rust10
refactoring10
blockchain10
refactor10
fileio9
internet-computer9
file-operations9
filesystem9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
dfinity/ic
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:120 reviews, 91 commits, 68 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily focused on refactoring the codebase by removing the `CheckpointManager` trait and related dependencies. This involved modifying the `StateLayout` structure and associated functions to directly handle checkpoint management. Their work involved updates to the state management logic within the Internet Computer blockchain source code and has improved overall code maintainability by removing unnecessary abstractions. The changes also appear to simplify the error handling and reduce boilerplate code.
blockchain
dfinity/bitcoin-canister
Apr 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 months
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