Alex Kalinin
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kalinin is a Staff Software Engineer based in the Greater Seattle Area with a decade-plus track record building large-scale, production-critical systems across cloud, mobile, and API platforms. Currently at Stripe, he focuses on the future of webhooks and API events, bringing deep systems and integration expertise honed at F5 Networks where he worked extensively with Kubernetes, Docker, and Go. His background spans server and cloud services (Bluebeam), mobile app hits in consumer marketplaces, and tooling and automation for enterprise products at Microsoft, demonstrating an ability to move between product, infrastructure, and developer-facing work. Alex combines hands-on implementation skills with architectural thinking, often improving reliability and scalability for high-throughput services. He holds an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Western Washington University and tends to gravitate toward projects that sit at the intersection of developer ergonomics and resilient distributed systems. A less obvious strength is his breadth across domains—from mobile UX to backend event plumbing—which helps him translate user-centered product needs into robust backend designs.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Computer Science, M.S, Computer Science at Western Washington University
Russian, English, French, German
Github Skills (6)
stripe10
stripe-api10
test-suite9
go8
http-server8
nodejs-library8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
stripe/stripe-mock
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
stripe-mock is a mock HTTP server that responds like the real Stripe API. It can be used instead of Stripe's testmode to make test suites integrating with Stripe faster and less brittle.
Contributions:11 reviews, 4 commits, 5 PRs in 1 day
http-serverstripestripe-api
stripe/stripe-go
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Go library for the Stripe API.
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 7 months
gostripe-apistripe-sdkstripe
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