Aleksandr Sharikhin
Staff Software Engineer at RingCentral
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Sharikhin is a Staff Software Engineer based in Valencia with 11 years of experience designing and evolving distributed, high-load, event-driven backend systems. He has a proven track record of technical ownership and architectural leadership across multiple teams at RingCentral and prior product companies, applying pragmatic functional programming principles to improve reliability and scalability. Aleksandr is deeply hands-on—comfortable shipping complex services, integrating crypto payments and billing systems, and optimizing high-throughput platforms built on diverse storage and cache technologies. He emphasizes long-term system design and measurable business impact, balancing strategic vision with day-to-day engineering. Notably, his background spans both startup and enterprise contexts, from leading teams to implementing low-level performance optimizations in production. Trained as an IT engineer in the North Caucasus, he brings a blend of disciplined engineering and practical product focus.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Information Technology, Engineer's degree Information Technology at North-Caucasus State Technical University
Russian, English
Github Skills (102)
zx-spectrum10
connected9
matrix9
z809
scripting9
8-bit9
computer-engineering8
linux8
scripting-language8
uno8
windows8
firmware8
lisp8
spectrum8
retrocomputing8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nihirash/moon-rabbit-zx
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Moon Rabbit gopher browser adopted for ZX Spectrum-compatible computers
Contributions:5 releases, 20 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year 7 months
nihirash/ells
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Embeddable Lisp-Like Scripting
Contributions:40 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 months
lispscriptingscalascripting-languagenewbie-friendly
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