Aleksei Chernikov
Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAleksei Chernikov is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 16+ years of software engineering experience and a deep full‑stack background spanning startups to scale-ups. He has led engineering and product efforts across fintech and crypto—most recently building fiat-to-crypto on‑ramp products and serving as CTO of a finance startup—while shipping embeddable SDKs, browser widgets, and secure backend systems. Comfortable across the stack (NextJS, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, Solidity, AWS) he also designed novel cryptographic solutions for decentralized authentication and zero‑knowledge enabled self‑custody. Known for building lean, high‑impact teams and shipping revenue-generating infrastructure at scale, he combines hands‑on implementation with technical leadership and a knack for practical cryptography.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Math, Physics, CS school #444Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexey-dc/nextjs_express_template
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
alexey-dc/rack_experiments
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:29 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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