Kashirin Alex
Lead Software Engineer
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SeniorAlex Kashirin is a software engineer and infrastructure specialist with a decade of experience building scalable distributed systems and backend platforms from Israel. He founded SWC-DB, a wide-column database project, and leads its engineering while continuously shipping infrastructure and storage solutions for cloud and on-prem environments. Alex combines deep systems work—databases, filesystems, kernel modules and network operations—with hands-on DevOps, MLOps and data engineering across SaaS, VMs and containers. His career blends entrepreneurial ventures (Thither.Direct, EOP-net) with product delivery at startups and consultancies, reflecting both architecture-level thinking and day-to-day operational ownership. Notably, he runs an open-source database project (swc-db) that demonstrates his willingness to design core infrastructure rather than only integrate existing tools.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (113)
swc10
python10
actionscript10
http10
bigtable10
c10k10
asio10
network-server10
cpp10
encryption10
concurrency10
nosql10
regular-expression10
dart10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kashirin-alex/Thither.Direct-client-libraries
Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
Client Libraries and APIs for THITHER.DIRECT API based services
Contributions:1 release, 124 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
apiclient-librariesapi-baseddirect
kashirin-alex/swc-db
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
SWC-DB (Super Wide Column Database) - High Performance Scalable Database
Contributions:31 releases, 2912 commits, 2336 pushes in 3 years 8 months
databaseswcdbswc-dbsuper-wide-column-database
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