Summary
Aleksei Kalmykov is an infrastructure-focused developer with 14 years of experience building backend systems and cloud migrations, currently shaping platform reliability at Hemnet in Stockholm. He spent five years at Flightradar24, where he combined PHP/JS APIs, large-scale map tile generation, 3D aircraft visualization and on-call ownership with DevOps practices (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes). His background spans mobile APIs, web projects in Ruby/JavaScript and early plugin work for Redmine, giving him a pragmatic full-stack sensibility grounded in backend and operational concerns. Aleksei is skilled at moving systems from bare metal to private cloud and integrating custom monitoring solutions, signaling a strong focus on observability and scalable infrastructure. Colleagues can expect a hands-on engineer who blends long-term systems thinking with day-to-day reliability work and a particular knack for productionizing geo/spatial workloads.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Saint Petersburg State University
English, Swedish, Russian