Aleksey Sanin
Software Engineer at WhatsApp Inc.
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolAleksey Sanin is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with over two decades of experience building high-throughput, secure systems and shipping production software across startups and major tech companies. He has led engineering and architecture teams at WePay, Yahoo, PayPal and Google, scaling payment and real-time analytics platforms to handle hundreds of thousands of messages per second and petabytes of data while achieving enterprise-grade security and compliance. Currently at WhatsApp in Sunnyvale, he continues to combine hands-on engineering with leadership, particularly in systems, payments and reliability. An early contributor to complex event processing and real-time pipelines, he also improved QA and test automation in notable open-source projects such as facebookarchive/xctool. Trained as a mathematician at Moscow State University, Aleksey brings a rigorous analytical approach and a track record of solving both low-level engineering challenges and high-level product risks.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Master, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at Moscow State University
Russian
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Github Skills (12)
uitest10
ios10
ui-testing10
xctest10
test-automation10
objective-c9
facebook-graph-api6
ssl6
persistent6
mysqli6
php6
mysql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/xctool
Jan 2014 - Dec 2019
An extension for Apple's xcodebuild that makes it easier to test iOS and macOS apps.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 releases, 325 commits, 74 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Aleksey primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure of the project by introducing and enhancing automated testing capabilities. They modified test setups to support UI testing, included tests to cover different features, and standardized test execution by specifying default device names and configurations. The contributions include the creation of new tests to cover specific code paths and functionality, and the modification of existing test cases to improve the reliability and coverage of the test suite. They also addressed potential issues that caused test stalling and improved the reporting capabilities.
iosmacosxcodebuild
ExtremeMan/homebrew-core
Apr 2016 - Dec 2019
:beers: Core formulae for the Homebrew package manager
Contributions:6 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 8 months
beersformulaehomebrewpackage-manager
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