Alex Gorkunov
Technical Director at proSapient
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gorkunov is a Technical Director based in London with 15+ years building and scaling SaaS platforms and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He specializes in architecting resilient, cloud-first systems—recently driving a migration to AWS, constructing monitoring stacks with Datadog, and decomposing an Elixir monolith into modular sub-services to enable team autonomy. Alex has a strong track record delivering on-premise and API-driven integrations for large enterprise clients, including designing an industry-adopted expert-network API and rebuilding a search engine using ML and data enrichment. He balances hands-on engineering (Elixir, Rails, Postgres stacks) with strategic delivery, product support, and DevOps reorganization. Known for pragmatic process improvements and knowledge-sharing, he has also led technical meetups and delivered public talks on modern web tooling. His background in rebuilding platforms quickly under tight timelines reflects a bias for shipping robust, production-ready solutions.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Samara State Aerospace University
Russian, English
Github Skills (121)
standalone-server10
webp10
uikit10
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react-component10
jpeg-xl10
image-server10
typescript10
jpeg10
crop-image10
avif10
image10
png10
react10
react-components9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
prosapient/statham_logger
Jun 2021 - Apr 2024
Elixir Logger backend with Datadog integration and extensible formatting.
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
backenddatadogelixir
gorkunov/smartpairs.vim
Dec 2012 - Jan 2018
Enchanted visual (selection) mode for Vim
Contributions:64 commits, 3 pushes, 12 comments in 5 years 1 month
vim
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