Summary
Aleksandr Zelenin is a senior software engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience and 11 years in professional roles, currently focused on delivering scalable front-end and back-end solutions from North Vancouver. He has led cross-functional teams at companies like Workday, Uber, Amazon, and Careem, driving projects that span real-time logging, CloudFront optimization, payment gateway reliability, and large-scale frontend migrations to React. Aleksandr combines technical leadership with measurable business impact—e.g., cutting AWS costs in half for multiple services and delivering a CloudFront security savings solution two years ahead of schedule. He is skilled across a broad stack (Java, TypeScript, React, Spring, Node.js, Ruby, Python, AWS, Kafka, Terraform) and emphasizes testable, automated deployments and analytics-driven verification. Known for rapid incident response and mentoring, he also has a track record of improving team velocity through architecture and tooling changes. Outside obvious achievements, he has produced widely read technical content and built resilient VPC-based infrastructures and CI processes that scaled teams and operations.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Software Development, Diploma, Software Development at Kaliningrad State College of Urban Development
Russian, English