Summary
Aleksey Bekh-ivanov is a Technical Lead based in Berlin with a decade of experience building and securing cloud-native, high-throughput systems across finance, automotive, fashion, and marketplace domains. He champions Agile, team autonomy, TDD and Continuous Delivery while combining deep hands-on skills in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Scala and Java with a strong focus on testing, automation, security and privacy. At ThoughtWorks he drove platform architecture and security for large migrations (≈2000 pipelines, ~70K K8s clusters, ~800 developer users) and has repeatedly balanced platform hardening with great developer experience. Comfortable switching between leading teams and coding, he mentors engineers, acts as security champion, and has a history of lifting legacy systems into modern CI/CD and cloud environments. His background in technical research (PhD-level study) and early work across diverse stacks gives him a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to designing resilient, observable platforms.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (not finished) Processes and Machinery in Chemical Engineering, PhD (not finished) Processes and Machinery in Chemical Engineering at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University)
English, German, Russian