Aleksei Magusev
Chief Technology Officer at Forza Football
Canada
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Aleksei Magusev is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 14 years of engineering experience, currently leading Forza Football from Canada. He combines strategic CTO responsibilities with deep hands-on expertise in Elixir and Erlang ecosystems, contributing to core projects like Elixir itself, Phoenix, Ecto, and Hex (the Erlang package manager). His open-source work spans reliability, API correctness, testing, and documentation—improving HTTP clients, Redis drivers, and tooling while surfacing subtle edge-case fixes and performance tweaks. A member of the Elixir core team and self-described tea advocate, he brings a thoughtful, detail-oriented approach rooted in a Master’s degree with distinction from A.F. Mozhaysky Military Space Engineering Academy.
14 years of coding experience
Master's degree with distinction, Master's degree with distinction at A.F. Mozhaysky Military Space Engineering Academy
Github Skills (39)
strings10
erlang10
data-validation10
web-application10
redis10
clientside10
api-design10
elixir10
apidoc10
testing10
text-manipulation10
connect10
connections10
http10
tasks10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-lang/elixir
May 2014 - Sep 2021
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:699 commits, 279 PRs, 430 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Aleksei primarily contributed to Elixir's core library, focusing on improvements to the option parser and command-line argument handling, which involved resolving edge cases and improving the robustness of the argument processing. They also implemented functions to address and improve various core functionalities such as bitstring, map, and string related functions, in some cases addressing bugs and optimizations. The user’s work included modifications to error handling and the internal tokenization and translation of the Elixir code base, and the introduction of new functionality in core libraries.
functional-languagescalablefunctional-programmingelixircompiler
elixir-plug/plug
Oct 2014 - Aug 2021
Compose web applications with functions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 13 PRs, 1 push in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Aleksei primarily focused on improving the `Plug` library, which is used for composing web applications. Their contributions involved implementing checks for sent states, ensuring that functions are only called when appropriate, and adding meaningful error messages for improved debugging. The user also refactored existing code to use functions like `assign/3` to optimize functionality, along with adding checks for a conn state in relevant functions. Additionally, the user fixed formatting issues and improved documentation within the library.
web-applicationserlangcomposeplugcompose-web
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