Alex Kapranoff
Production Engineer at Meta
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kapranoff is a production engineer with 18 years of experience designing and operating high-volume web and email systems, currently at Meta in California. He brings deep Unix/Linux and Perl expertise, having led mail infrastructure at Yandex and built Rambler Mail into a flagship product earlier in his career. At Facebook/Meta he progressed from hands-on production engineering to a management role, blending incident-driven reliability work with agile development practices. An active open-source contributor, Alex has improved the Perl Dancer web framework—adding cookie-based sessions and PSGI PATH_INFO fixes—showing his attention to both user-facing and low-level interoperability details. He combines startup CTO experience launching social lead-generation platforms with large-scale production discipline, making him equally comfortable inventing features and keeping them reliably running.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Software Engineering, w/ distinction, Engineer's degree, Computer Software Engineering, w/ distinction at Bryansk State Technical University (BSTU)
English, Russian, Turkish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
web-framework10
perl10
session-management10
http6
javascript6
google-chrome6
spdy6
regex6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
PerlDancer/Dancer
Sep 2009 - Sep 2010
The easiest way to write web applications with Perl (Perl web micro-framework)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Dancer web framework by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to its core functionality. Their work includes addressing issues with the `PATH_INFO` environment variable under PSGI, and implementing cookie-based session storage. The user also debugged the cookie session implementation and added documentation for it.
micro-frameworkperlframework
kappa/Text-Hyphen
Nov 2008 - Oct 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 12 years
hyphenationknuth
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