Aleksei Zakharov
Member Of Technical Staff at Stealth AI Startup
Espoo, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksei Zakharov is a seasoned backend and security-minded software engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling production systems across cloud, IoT and security domains. He has led design and delivery of high-throughput, mission-critical services—from a carrier-grade LoRaWAN traffic layer handling billions of messages to an IDS/IPS that neutralizes millions of attacks monthly—while owning architecture, APIs and observability stacks. Comfortable in both large Agile organizations and small startups, he combines hands-on Go and Python engineering with low-level Linux and module work (Apache/Nginx/Netfilter) and a strong academic foundation in information security. Aleksei has a demonstrated talent for modernizing legacy systems with zero-downtime migrations and embedding security into the platform rather than bolting it on. He also contributes pragmatic developer tools and SDKs (Go/Python/CLI) to simplify integrations, and mentors teams on code quality, documentation and secure practices. Based in Espoo, Finland, he pairs systems-level thinking with a preference for solving hard problems with minimal complexity.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityBachelor's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Sevastopol State Technical University
Github Skills (49)
vpn-client9
openvpn9
thin9
pia9
docker-container8
wireguard8
golang7
http-proxy7
openconnect7
docker7
tor6
dns6
proxy6
vpn6
ssh5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dokzlo13/partition_reader
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
dokzlo13/hueplanner
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Python service for complex Philips Hue automation with extensive automation rules
Contributions:16 releases, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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