Summary
Alex Bashmakov is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years focused on backend systems, microservices, APIs, data pipelines and cloud-native DevOps, currently driving work at Axon after a multi-year SDE tenure at Amazon. He brings deep systems experience rooted in a long hardware-to-software career at Intel and Marvell, giving him an uncommon perspective on bridging low-level design constraints with scalable cloud architectures. Comfortable across the stack, Alex has designed and operated resilient distributed services and automated pipelines that prioritize observability and operational simplicity. Based in Tempe, Arizona, he pairs an MSEE from Georgia Tech with broad industry experience to solve performance and reliability challenges at scale. Colleagues value his pragmatic engineering judgment and ability to translate complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE, MSEE at Georgia Institute of Technology
BS, BS at Boston University
Russian