Alex Kruchkov
Platform Engineer Team Lead Internal Developer Platform
Ukraine
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Top SchoolAlex Kruchkov is a Platform Engineer Team Lead with eight years of experience designing internal developer platforms that make software delivery reliable, observable, and self‑service. He has transitioned from hands‑on infrastructure and data engineering roles to treating internal platforms as product experiences, driving roadmaps, adoption metrics, and UX-driven golden paths. At Coralogix he leads an IDP unifying CI/CD, templating, Backstage portals and progressive delivery across multi‑cloud Kubernetes clusters, and previously built large-scale Airflow and Hadoop ecosystems at AppsFlyer. Alex contributes to Apache Airflow—fixing bugs and adding operators—demonstrating a commitment to improving core open-source orchestration tooling. Based in Ukraine, he blends deep distributed systems and operational ownership with a focus on reducing developer cognitive load while scaling platform teams.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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English, Hebrew, Russian
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Github Skills (11)
sql10
python10
airflow10
testing10
dockers9
docker9
ssh8
devops8
sftp7
data-engineering7
workflow-engine6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:35 reviews, 10 PRs, 59 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Apache Airflow project by fixing bugs and adding new features. Their work involved addressing deprecation warnings in testing utilities, resolving an issue related to the SSHHook when using the allow_host_key_change parameter, and implementing a new feature to support fnmatch type regex in the SFTPSensor. Additionally, the user worked on a new operator, `SqlToSlackOperator`, and made updates to ensure that the project is using the correct Docker context. These contributions reflect a focus on improving core functionality and enhancing the usability of the Airflow project.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
alexkruc/airflow
May 2022 - Oct 2022
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Contributions:127 pushes, 10 branches in 5 months
monitorapacheprogrammaticallyapache-airflowairflow
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