Alex Kulikov
Founding Engineer at Sysblok | Системный Блокъ
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Kulikov is a pragmatic software engineer with 6 years of experience building reliable data-focused systems and developer tooling across startups and major platforms, currently a founding engineer at onFabric and leading pro bono engineering for a 200+ contributor science hub. At Meta he drove reliability for the Data Transfer Project, cutting failure rates tenfold and overhauling monitoring while mentoring junior engineers. His background ranges from low-level source-control work and C++ performance optimizations to full-stack Hack/GraphQL/React services, reflecting strong systems thinking and ship-what-works instincts. A former MIPT lecturer and compiler TA, he brings an academic rigor to practical engineering and a clear interest in data portability and source control. He’s selective about collaborations and focuses on mission-driven projects that improve access to knowledge and user data ownership.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Mathematics and Computer Science, High School, Mathematics and Computer Science at Boarding School 'Intellectual'Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Russian, English, French
Github Skills (11)
data-transfer10
portability10
protocols10
transfer10
data-models10
scalable10
user-friendly10
data-portability10
sequential4
storage3
database2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexeyqu-fb/data-transfer-project
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
The Data Transfer Project makes it easy for people to transfer their data between online service providers. We are establishing a common framework, including data models and protocols, to enable direct transfer of data both into and out of participating online service providers.
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 months
online-serviceparticipatingprovidersdata-modelsdirect
facebook/sapling
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
A Scalable, User-Friendly Source Control System.
Contributions:62 commits in 2 months
control-systemscalablesource-controluser-friendly
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