Alex Dunaevsky
Principal Expert Kafka Expert Dev at Sberbank
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
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SeniorAlex Dunaevsky is a Principal Expert and Kafka specialist with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-grade streaming solutions for major Russian financial institutions including Sberbank and Home Credit. A Scala and Java veteran with deep knowledge of Kafka internals, he combines functional programming discipline—rooted in an early love of Lisp—with pragmatic system design and relentless codebase stewardship. He frequently leads internal Kafka platform development, enabling reliable event-driven architectures for internal clients at scale. Recently he has been pivoting into Rust, bringing systems-level thinking and safer-concurrency practices to messaging and data pipeline work. Comfortable across a broad polyglot toolset (Rust, Scala, Java, Lisp, Bash, Python), he pairs low-level curiosity with hands-on delivery. Based in Moscow, he blends research-minded exploration with enterprise-grade implementation experience.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Russian, English, Spanish, Romanian, French
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Github Skills (154)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rootex-/kafka
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:49 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 5 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkasinkksqldbapache
rootex-/share_nvim
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:8 releases, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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