Aleksei Smirnov
Senior Backend Engineer at inDrive
Nicosia, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksei Smirnov is a Senior Backend Engineer with 15+ years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems and nine years of Go expertise. He has led architectural initiatives and teams to migrate monoliths to microservices, improve CI/CD and observability, and scale telemetry and log processing to tens of thousands of devices using technologies like PostgreSQL, Kafka, ClickHouse and Kubernetes. At Infinet he cut costs and boosted throughput with clever storage and polling redesigns, and at UnifyOrdering he automated supplier integrations and invoice reconciliation to materially grow revenue and deployment velocity. Now at inDrive he focuses on matchmaking logic that determines optimal drivers for rides, combining real-world constraints with performance-sensitive backend design. Based in Nicosia, he pairs a hands-on engineering style with a habit of documenting and systematizing team practices, making complex systems both faster and easier to maintain.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Engineer in CAD, Software development in CAD, Master's degree, Engineer in CAD, Software development in CAD at Ural State Technical University
Github Skills (176)
file-generator10
gazelle10
authentication10
security10
extensible10
ftp-server10
auth10
code-generator10
starlark10
api10
sdk10
intellij-plugin10
jwt10
golang10
database-migration10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
asv/deadbeef-gvfs
Jun 2011 - Aug 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 5 years 3 months
glibfile-systemvirtual-file-systemtransport
Autoproof/cli
Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:10 releases, 27 pushes, 28 tags in 1 year
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