Aleksandr Pilipenko
Senior Software Engineer at Wise
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAleksandr Pilipenko is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge, UK, with eight years of experience building backend systems across fintech and cloud platforms. He has progressed from junior roles in CROC and Neolant to senior engineering positions at QIWI, AWS, and currently Wise, bringing strong production experience in high-scale environments. Aleksandr contributes to open source—improving the popular ktlint Kotlin linter by refining spacing rules, adding unary operator checks, and strengthening its test suite—showing attention to code quality and tooling. His background in Computer Aided Design from Bauman MSTU underpins a methodical, engineering-first approach to problem solving and refactoring. Notably, he pairs pragmatic delivery at major cloud and payments companies with hands-on improvements to developer experience and formatter tooling.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Aided Design (CAD), Engineer's degree Computer Aided Design (CAD) at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
English, Russian, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (11)
kotlin10
linter10
linting10
testing10
code-formatting9
hive-metastore6
unmanaged6
flink-sql6
apache-flink6
visual-studio6
apache-iceberg6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/ktlint
Apr 2019 - Mar 2022
An anti-bikeshedding Kotlin linter with built-in formatter
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily focused on improving the `ktlint` linter, a Kotlin code style checker and formatter. Their contributions involved fixing spacing issues related to commas and comments, which included moving commas before comments in certain cases and adding logic for handling newlines. They also added a new rule related to spacing around unary operators and enhanced the test suite. Finally, they refactored ktlint-core, by removing logging configuration.
linterlintantiktlintkotlin
z3d1k/flink-connector-aws
Jan 2023 - Aug 2024
Apache flink
Contributions:184 pushes, 52 branches in 1 year 6 months
flinkconnectorapachebig-datadatastream
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