Aleksandr Sharov is an IT service delivery consultant and hands-on manager with 14 years of experience building and operating enterprise IT for multinational firms across Russia. He has led regional IT teams and projects at organizations like Cargill, Syneos Health and PAREXEL, improving SLAs, translating business processes into IT workflows, and driving cost and asset optimizations. Technically comfortable across infrastructure, endpoint management and applications, he has also contributed code to open-source PHP and Yii2 projects—improving session handling and unifying framework usage—showing a rare blend of systems leadership and backend development. Known for pragmatic process documentation and knowledge-base driven support improvements, he leverages automation (including simple AI bots) to raise first-touch resolution and reduce repeat incidents. Fluent in cross-border coordination, he has run multi-site rollouts, 2FA and MDM initiatives and can bridge vendor, HQ and local operations effectively. Based in Moscow and active on GitHub, he seeks engaging communities where technical craft and operational excellence meet.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4 at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Asynchronous server-side framework for network applications implemented in PHP using libevent
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:18 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily focused on enhancing the PHP backend framework, `phpdaemon`, by implementing session handling improvements. Their commits demonstrate a focus on compatibility with standard PHP session functions, including `session_encode` and `session_decode`, and adjustments to how sessions are started and read. Further contributions include refactoring and unifying the codebase by addressing syntax inconsistencies and streamlining core functionalities, such as in the `Bootstrap` class.
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily contributed to unifying Yii framework usage in views, making adjustments to user authentication and account management within the frontend user modules. They updated database index configurations to improve performance and addressed issues related to article and article category management. Furthermore, the user removed global namespace syntax, adjusted code to prevent the direct use of "\Yii::" calls, and added a forgotten class.
bootstrap4cmsadminlte3phpyii2-starter
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Aleksandr Sharov - IT Service Delivery Consultant at Cargill