Summary
Aleksei Markov is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of professional experience and nine years focused on Ruby on Rails, currently developing and operating ACH payment workflows on Braintree’s Bank Payments team. He combines a strong delivery mindset with an insistence on long-term quality, owning on-call responsibilities and preventative problem-solving to reduce recurring incidents. His background spans payments, identity, and fraud risk at scale (Postmates/Uber) and includes backend work in Go and Python, plus experience integrating with external APIs for consumer and enterprise services. Based in Buffalo Grove, IL, he brings both consulting breadth from projects for major startups and deep production experience in transactional systems, often bridging engineering with data teams to ensure reliable detection and protection against financial risk.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Information Systems and Technologies, Engineer's degree Information Systems and Technologies at Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU)