Alex Bolshakov
Principal Software Engineer at Soflyy
Tbilisi, Georgia
Summary
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SeniorAlex Bolshakov is a Principal Software Engineer and technical leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling full-stack web products used by millions, currently shaping the no-code website builder Breakdance from Tbilisi. He combines hands-on engineering—authoring high-performance JS libraries and a Twig template compiler—with product-minded leadership, running code review for every contribution and turning vague business requirements into concrete features. Alex has repeatedly driven performance and delivery gains (including a 300% performance improvement at Soflyy) and led fast rewrites, CI/CD, and Kubernetes migrations across e-commerce, MedTech, and telecom platforms. He pairs deep system-level knowledge (PHP, TypeScript, Node, Vue, Nest, SQL/NoSQL, Docker/K8s) with a knack for developer enablement—introducing API docs, testing, and career growth systems that reduce cycle time and defects. An active contributor to open-source e-commerce tooling (notably improvements to the Yupe! grid component), he favors pragmatic refactors and measurable optimizations that keep legacy systems viable while enabling modern architectures.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian
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Github Skills (17)
yii10
ecommerce10
php10
shopify9
javascript9
webshop9
shopware9
refactoring8
smarty6
firebase-cloud-messaging6
firebase6
nodejs6
cs-cart6
typeorm6
browser6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
yupe/yupe
Apr 2013 - Apr 2013
Yupe! is an open source Yiiframework-based online e-commerce solution. Demo https://demo.yupe.ru/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `YCustomGridView` component within the Yupe! e-commerce platform. Their contributions include adding features like a page size selector, modifying its behavior, and integrating it with session management for user preferences. Several commits also involved refactoring JavaScript code related to the grid view and optimizing the display and functionality of the component. These changes enhanced the user experience and improved the grid view's configuration options.
ecommerceyiicommercephpyii-framework
alpharder/phpgrant
Jan 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 4 months
php-basedvagrantphpdevelopment-environmentphp-development
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