Aleksei Zaitsev is a Senior .NET engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading backend microservices at scale, currently contributing to Yandex after senior roles at Microsoft. A TDD evangelist and practical architect, he has led teams, introduced development processes from scratch, and owned a microservice handling billions of monthly requests. His stack spans .NET Framework/Core, Azure, Cosmos DB, RabbitMQ, Docker and CI automation, and he consistently balances business goals with high code quality. Notably, he has driven reliability and testability improvements in large consumer services and championed knowledge sharing and staging/testing environments across organizations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Computers, computing complexes, systems and networks, 5.0, Engineer’s Degree, Computers, computing complexes, systems and networks, 5.0 at Сибирский федеральный университет
Master’s Degree, High-performance computer systems and technologies, 5.0, Master’s Degree, High-performance computer systems and technologies, 5.0 at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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Aleksei Zaitsev - Senior Software Engineer at Yandex