Aleksandr Sobolev
Senior Software Engineer at Reef Technologies
Bishkek City, Kyrgyzstan
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Top SchoolAleksandr Sobolev is a Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years building scalable backend systems, leading teams, and integrating AI/ML and blockchain security tooling. He specializes in Python-driven microservices (Django, FastAPI, Flask), serverless AWS patterns, and API-first designs, with front-end experience in TypeScript/React and workflow automation via Zapier. Aleksandr has hands-on experience hardening smart contract registries—adding YAML schema validation and bytecode/hash checks to the well-regarded SWC Registry—bringing security-minded rigor to platform engineering. He has repeatedly shipped fast MVPs and high-traffic features, from a restaurant SaaS processing millions of orders to education platforms on Open edX. Based in Bishkek, he combines practical leadership with deep debugging instincts (self-styled “Master of merge conflicts & Celery retries”), making him effective at rescuing and scaling complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Informational Technology, BS Informational Technology at International University of Central Asia
English, Russian
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Github Skills (18)
json10
solidity10
testing10
security10
blockchain10
yaml10
ethereum9
smart-contracts9
bash8
nodejs8
django-models6
python6
django6
java6
tastypie6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SmartContractSecurity/SWC-registry
Sep 2018 - May 2020
Smart Contract Weakness Classification and Test Cases
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:199 commits, 77 PRs, 98 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr's primary contributions involved enhancing the security and integrity of smart contract configurations within the repository. They introduced and refined YAML schema validation using tools like `yaml-schema-validator` and `jsonlint` to enforce data correctness. Furthermore, the user implemented checks for bytecode hashes and file structures, along with refactoring and updates. These efforts focused on bolstering the overall robustness and reliability of the smart contract weakness registry.
classificationsmart-contractstestcaseethereumsecurity
maddevsio/raiden-client-python
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Raiden API python client
Contributions:12 releases, 222 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
python
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