Aleksandr Ponimaskin
Software Engineer at Zalando SE
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Ponimaskin is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of backend experience, currently building scalable systems at Zalando in Berlin. He brings deep proficiency in Clojure, Python, and Rust, with industrial experience in blockchain-era Rust development though he now explicitly avoids blockchain projects. His career spans fast-moving startups and larger teams—from Trucker Path and Bitfury to talent-tech and e-commerce—demonstrating adaptability across domains and languages. Trained originally in marine electrical engineering, he combines rigorous systems thinking with pragmatic engineering practices. Colleagues would note his preference for solid, language-driven solutions and a willingness to trade hype for technical clarity.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Камчатский Государственный Технический Университет (бывшее Петропавловск-Камчатское Высшее Инженерное Морское Училище)Master's degree, Marine Electrical Engineering, Master's degree, Marine Electrical Engineering at Kamchatka State Technical University
Russian, English
Github Skills (146)
reverse-proxy10
composition10
proxy10
contour10
skipper10
mosaic10
golang10
http-router10
kubernetes10
router10
etcd10
go10
kubernetes-ingress10
ingress-controller10
ingress10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ponimas/exonum-btc-anchoring
May 2018 - Dec 2020
Exonum Bitcoin anchoring service (using multisignatures)
Contributions:2 PRs, 82 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 6 months
exonumanchoringbitcoin
ponimas/skipper
Jun 2021 - Nov 2023
An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
golangcasescompositionhttp-routeruse-cases
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