Aleksandr Tarasov
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Careem
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAleksandr Tarasov is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer with 11+ years building cloud-native platforms and SRE practices across fintech and marketplace companies, currently driving infrastructure at Careem from Dubai. He is a Go-first engineer with deep experience in Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD and observability stacks, and a longtime Java practitioner who led early microservices and Docker adoption at large banks. Aleksandr has a track record of shrinking CI/CD lead times to minutes, automating self-managed services to cut toil by 90%, and achieving five‑nines availability through strong SRE discipline and developer empowerment. An active conference speaker and open-source maintainer (pbuf.io), he contributes to Linkerd and publishes technical translations and essays, reflecting a blend of hands-on engineering, platform strategy, and community engagement.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Software Engineering, 4.6, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Software Engineering, 4.6 at Perm State Technical University (PSTU)
Русский, English
Github Skills (95)
annotations10
security10
cloud-native10
k8s10
service-mesh10
mesh10
atlassian10
golang10
rust10
thrift10
kubernetes10
spring-boot-starter10
java10
spring-boot10
spring-cloud10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aatarasoff/apistress
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
aatarasoff/linkerd2
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.
Contributions:37 pushes, 9 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 4 months
load-balancermeshcitrix2-xmain-repo
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