Alex Dzhagriev
Staff Software Engineer at Twilio
West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Dzhagriev is a Staff Software Engineer based in West Palm Beach with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable backend and data systems across companies from startups to hyperscale (Joby Aviation, multiple roles at Amazon, and Twilio). He holds a Master's in Applied Mathematics and has a strong track record in distributed systems, data infrastructure (Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra), and production-ready APIs, often balancing performance and cost in data pipelines. Promoted into technical leadership early, he has led small engineering teams and driven platform migrations such as PostgreSQL to Cassandra while also building functional test frameworks. At Twilio and Amazon he focused on large-scale, reliable services; at XING he bridged batch and real-time recommender systems, showing a rare mix of data engineering and core backend expertise. Notably, his career blends deep academic training with pragmatic system-building across both cloud-native and big-data stacks.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics at Samara State University
Russian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
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Github Skills (41)
python-client9
encoding8
ascii8
decoding8
confluent7
validation7
confluent-cloud7
segment7
struct7
hive6
configurations6
json6
apache-spark6
protobuf5
golang5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dzhagr/weather-forecast
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
dzhagr/dzhagr
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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