Alex Akimov
Director Of Engineering at OakNorth
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAlex Akimov is a seasoned technology leader and Director of Engineering based in Amsterdam, with two decades of experience building API platforms and scaling engineering organizations for fintech and embedded finance. He has led API strategy and developer experience at scale—most notably at Adyen where his teams supported platforms processing hundreds of billions in transactions—and later served as CTO and board member at Monite, driving its AI-first platform, compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2) and global integrations. At OakNorth he is focused on creating an AI-native engineering organization for banking, combining deep API design, platform reliability and practical AI adoption. Known for bridging technical strategy with hands-on delivery, he also brings an unusual background in developer documentation and automated tooling that shaped developer experience as a competitive differentiator.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Transformation in Financial Services, Digital Transformation in Financial Services at Copenhagen Business SchoolMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Tula State University
Russian, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (89)
fastapi10
json-schema10
swagger10
oas10
specification10
openapi10
async10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
obsolete10
json10
billing10
redoc10
adyen10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Adyen/adyen-openapi
Nov 2017 - Nov 2021
OpenAPI specification for the Adyen APIs
Contributions:83 commits, 8 PRs, 100 pushes in 4 years
openapi-standardapiopenapi-specificationspecificationsubscriptions
team-monite/monite-node-client
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 months
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