Aleksei Zakharov
Engineering Manager at Robinhood
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksei Zakharov is an engineering manager and founder with 15 years of experience building consumer and crypto products, currently leading Web3 efforts at Robinhood in San Francisco. He has a track record of founding and scaling startups—most recently Ottr Finance, acquired by Tools For Humanity/Worldcoin after raising $3.1M—and has led crypto and mobile engineering teams at Cash App, Worldcoin, Instagram, and Lyft. Aleksei blends hands-on engineering (early Android and backend work, plus an open-source OmniAuth Mail.ru OAuth2 integration) with product leadership, shipping wallets, Bitcoin features, and large-scale mobile frameworks. He’s skilled at growing teams from zero to dozens, instituting experimentation frameworks, and translating complex crypto primitives into polished user experiences. Known for shipping pragmatic infrastructure and delightful client apps, he pairs entrepreneurial resilience with deep technical breadth across mobile, backend, and Web3 stacks.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer science and applied mathematics, Bachelor, Computer science and applied mathematics at South Ural State University (SUSU)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (17)
apidoc10
omniauth10
authentication10
user-authentication10
ruby10
api10
google-maps10
oauth10
json9
android9
fluentnhibernate6
nhibernate6
ruby-on-rails6
video-editing6
internationalization6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
omniauth/omniauth
Apr 2011 - Apr 2011
OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Aleksei primarily focused on adding and refining a Mailru OAuth2 provider for the OmniAuth authentication system. Their contributions include implementing the initial Mailru strategy, making subsequent adjustments to address authentication flow and data retrieval issues. They also modified the user info and added the email field. Additionally, the user included the signature calculation necessary for the Mailru API requests.
authentication-systemrack-middlewarerailsauthenticationomniauth
lexer/injektor
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 63 pushes in 3 months
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