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 (114)
zx-spectrum10
matrix9
z809
spectrum9
8-bit9
playing8
linux8
sega-genesis8
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floppy8
uno8
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nihirash/Agon-CPM2.2
May 2023 - Mar 2025
CP/M 2.2 port for Agon Light that didn't require custom firmware. Use your Agon fully and have access to CP/M system.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 9 PRs in 1 year 10 months
agon-lightagonlightcpm22ez80
nihirash/internet-nextplorer
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Gopher browser for ZX Spectrum Next
Contributions:3 releases, 22 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 10 months
zx-spectrum-nextbrowsergopherspectrum-nextspectrum
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