Summary
Aleksei Lipniagov is a Senior Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience building and leading engineering teams to deliver high-performance web platforms. Currently focused on memory and performance at GitLab, he combines deep Ruby/Rails expertise with practical work on full-stack features, SQL optimization, and test-driven development. He has led engineering and CTO roles at fast-moving startups and large educational platforms, shipping end-to-end features from backend to analytics and A/B testing. An advocate of clean, modular code, Aleksei promotes disciplined practices through code review, pair programming, and comprehensive test coverage. Comfortable mentoring, hiring and onboarding engineers, he also explores functional programming and Elixir in side projects. Based in Amsterdam, he thrives in remote, international teams and brings a strong computer-science foundation from Baumann and HSE to pragmatic product engineering.
12 years of coding experience