Alex Afanasyev
Head Of Collections at iCOUNTER
Kaş, Antalya, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Afanasyev is a pragmatic software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building scalable APIs, agentic data-collection systems, and threat intelligence pipelines. Currently Head of Collections, he combines deep Python expertise with hands-on ML, CV, and NLP work—especially for cyber, fraud and OSINT use cases—while knowing when to prioritize product delivery over perfection. He’s launched and led startups and teams (parseIntel, Open Measures) and has a background at Amazon and Flashpoint, balancing engineering management with individual contributor craft. His work spans the full lifecycle: building resilient data feeds from deep and dark web sources, fine-tuning transformers for domain-specific detection, and hardening systems via testing and profiling. Based in Kaş, Antalya, he pairs a radiophysics MSc mindset with a taste for breaking systems to discover their limits and a persistent curiosity across psychology, brain science, and security.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at CourseraComputer Science, Computer Science at UdacityMaster of Science - MS, Radiophysics, Master of Science - MS, Radiophysics at Saratov State UniversityDeep Learning, Deep Learning at Udemy AlumniComputer Science, Computer Science at 10gen
Russian, English, Kazakh, German, modern standard arabic
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Github Skills (38)
shell10
cli10
coveralls9
cli-app9
python9
rails9
bash9
docker9
php9
zsh9
gradle-plugin8
macos8
spice8
homebrew8
oh-my-zsh8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pomkine/easy-proxy
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:134 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
pomkine/dotfiles
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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