Summary
Alex Fortuna is a seasoned Lead Developer and CTO with 11 years in senior roles and over 20 years of hands-on programming across Ruby on Rails, TypeScript (Deno/Node), Rust, and legacy systems. He specializes in building maintainable, well-documented web and mobile applications and excels at smoothing onboarding, enforcing testing discipline, and creating resilient architectures backed by clear APIs and documentation. A pragmatic mentor and team-builder, Alex prefers to teach rather than command, driving long-term quality and knowledge transfer across engineering teams. His background spans startups, telecom test engineering, game and multimedia development, and server administration, giving him a rare blend of product, infrastructure, and tooling experience. Based in Sochi, he also contributes to open source and pursues hobby projects that keep his technical curiosity sharp and continuously broaden his toolbox.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Russian State University of Aviation Technology (MATI)
English, Russian