Alex Aktsipetrov
Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAlex Aktsipetrov is a Zurich-based software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, high-performance backend systems across adtech, video, and web platforms. Currently at Google, he brings deep practical knowledge of distributed systems, low-latency services and product launches, having previously led teams and architectural changes at IPONWEB that delivered a strategic TV product and improved ad operations latency. He is a pragmatic engineer who moved from hands-on development—rewriting video encoding farms and integrating DRM—to leading teams and shifting company-wide web frameworks. An active contributor to the core Django project, Alex has fixed complex queryset and prefetching issues, demonstrating nuanced expertise in ORM internals and database-query optimization. His background in applied mathematics from MSU underpins a data-driven approach to problems like forecasting and auction replay for ML pipelines. Colleagues describe him as curious, process-minded, and comfortable translating deep technical fixes into measurable product improvements.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Stackoverflow
880reputation
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Github Skills (16)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
orm10
dbset10
python10
django10
modeling9
python-requests9
testing8
django-models6
django-filter6
rust6
window-functions6
sql6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
django/django
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 PRs, 20 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Django web framework, focusing on bug fixes and internal improvements. Their work included addressing issues related to filtering in querysets, optimizing prefetch_related functionality, and re-enabling window expressions in specific contexts. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of Django's internal workings, particularly the query and model layers, and contribute to the framework's reliability and efficiency.
pythondjango-frameworkappsdjangoframework
gizmondo/django
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
frameworkdeadlinesweb-framework
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