Aleksandr Polovtsev
Senior Software Engineer at GridGain Systems
Paphos Municipality, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Polovtsev is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and implementing backend systems, currently contributing at GridGain Systems from Paphos, Cyprus. He has a strong foundation in computer software engineering (BSc and MSc) from Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University and a track record building data-heavy platforms at Genestack and full-stack systems earlier in his career. Aleksandr contributes to notable open-source projects like Apache Ignite, where his fixes improved observability and reduced noisy warnings in distributed persistence and threading subsystems. He combines systems-level thinking—evident from work on program-trace visualization and a DSL translator—with practical delivery of enterprise information systems and bioinformatics data platforms. Colleagues rely on him for bug-driven quality improvements and measurable metrics enhancements that make large systems easier to operate. He brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach that balances low-level debugging with production-scale feature work.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
Russian, English
Github Skills (7)
apache-ignite10
javas10
java10
testing9
databases8
database8
sql7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ignite
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Apache Ignite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 63 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily contributed to the Apache Ignite project by fixing bugs and improving code quality. The first commit focused on suppressing redundant warning messages related to WAL archiving in non-persistent mode. The user also implemented metrics for in-memory index pages, contributing to the project's monitoring capabilities. Further contributions include reducing the number of messages for "Blocked system-critical thread" and fixing parsing issues related to encrypted records.
data-management-platformin-memory-databasedistributed-sql-databaseapache-ignitenetwork-client
sashapolo/curriculum-vitae
Mar 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:15 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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