Aleksei Kolchanov
Senior Software Engineer at MEDvidi
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAleksei Kolchanov is a Senior Software Engineer and technical leader with a decade of experience building web, mobile, and game backends, currently based in Abu Dhabi. He combines deep Node.js expertise with hands-on experience across Web3, NFT-driven gaming, and real-time systems—having led a 10-person Web3 launch that attracted 200k+ testnet users and shipped features like battle passes and NFT battles. Aleksei has moved between individual contributor and leadership roles, shaping architecture and infrastructure for microservices, gamified consumer apps, and entertainment platforms. He actively contributes to open-source tooling for data extraction (notably work on a TikTok scraper parsing __NEXT_DATA__ / SIGI_STATE), showing a knack for adapting systems to evolving web platforms. Persistent about shipping robust backends, he balances product thinking with pragmatic engineering and team mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Program Engineering, Program Engineering at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Russian, English
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Github Skills (9)
json-parser10
json10
jsonp10
javascript10
parsing10
webscraping10
typescript-types5
typescripts5
typescript5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
drawrowfly/tiktok-scraper
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
TikTok Scraper. Download video posts, collect user/trend/hashtag/music feed metadata, sign URL and etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Aleksei primarily focused on parsing and extracting data from the TikTok website. Their work involved modifying the code to handle changes in the website's structure, specifically related to fetching user and video metadata. This required adjusting the code to parse data from the `__NEXT_DATA__` and `SIGI_STATE` variables, indicating a focus on staying current with the TikTok platform's updates. The changes also included some formatting and code style adjustments.
signtiktokvideometadatadownloader
Pterko/group-keeper-bot
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:62 PRs, 125 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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