Alena Kazakova
R&D Software Engineer at ActionPower
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolAlena Kazakova is an R&D Software Engineer based in Seoul with 11 years in engineering and 8+ years focused on backend and cloud-native systems, specializing in real-time, distributed, and event-driven architectures. At ActionPower she designed a 99.9% available microservice platform powering multi-modal AI APIs (STT, TTS, LLM, image, video) that serves millions of daily requests and unlocked new revenue streams through production-grade API design. She has led cross-functional teams spanning Cloud, SRE, DevOps, Security and Backend to deliver scalable, highly available systems and accelerated release cycles with synchronous, asynchronous, and streaming APIs. Her academic work at Seoul National University blends hardware and software expertise—building autonomous driving platforms, ROS integrations, and embedded drivers—demonstrating hands-on skills from kernel modules to CAD and hardware assembly. Comfortable prototyping in Python and JavaScript, she combines deep systems thinking with practical engineering that bridges research prototypes and investor-facing demos.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National UniversityHigh School, High School at Russian Embassy School in the Republic of KoreaLevel 2 Completion, Korean Language Program, Level 2 Completion, Korean Language Program at Pusan National University
Russian, English, Korean
Github Skills (18)
jlink9
torcs9
software-update8
embedded7
electric-vehicles6
discrete-event-simulation6
modeling5
dynamics5
simulator5
simulation5
entrypoint3
java2
aggregator2
eclipse2
gateway2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rubis-lab/NANS_frameworks_base
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 6 months
rubis-lab/NANS_packages_apps_settings
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 6 months
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