Alex Karev
Software Engineer at Yandex
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Karev is a seasoned software engineer with 12+ years building distributed systems, microservices, and networked services in POSIX environments, currently contributing to cloud infrastructure at Yandex. He brings deep systems and database expertise—client/server RDBMS programming, schema design, and (R)DBMS integration—backed by extensive C99/C++, Java, Perl and PL/SQL experience. His background includes long-term engineering and consulting on critical telemetry and electricity flow measurement systems, indicating strong experience in reliability and domain-driven design for infrastructure projects. Comfortable across the stack, he has also worked on desktop computation libraries and web front-ends, and maintains a curiosity for functional languages and ML research (Ocaml, R). Known for pragmatic, low-level problem solving, he blends academic rigor from dual master’s degrees with a preference for toolchains that emphasize performance and robustness.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of CS, Engineering, Industrial automation, Master of CS, Engineering, Industrial automation at Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical Institute (State Technical University) (MADI)Master grade in CS, CS: System programmer, Software engineer, Avarage score for all years of study is near 4.5 of 5.0 possible, Master grade in CS, CS: System programmer, Software engineer, Avarage score for all years of study is near 4.5 of 5.0 possible at Moscow Aviation Institute (State Technical University) (MAI)
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
orca9
yandex9
yandex-cloud9
tarantool9
beancount8
terraform7
packer-plugin7
cql6
medium6
duplicates6
forward-list6
data-modeling6
padding6
terraform-provider6
cassandra6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
interiorem/burlak
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Cocaine orchestrator prototype (aka Orca)
Contributions:27 PRs, 314 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 8 months
orchestratorbeancountorcaprototypetarantool
karitra/cocaine-plugins
Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
Cocaine Plugins
Contributions:221 pushes, 47 branches in 1 year 8 months
pluginspluginjenkins-api-plugin
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