Alex Merkulov
Senior Software Engineer at Sam's Club
Flower Mound, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Merkulov is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing high-throughput backend and full-stack systems, currently leading Exit Gate computer vision and microservices efforts at Sam's Club. He specializes in Python-driven architectures, cloud-native Azure optimizations, and real-time telemetry for large-scale deployments—having cut pipeline latency 45%, reduced Azure costs by $480K/year, and enabled rollout to 500+ locations. A longtime VoIP and telephony expert, Alex built and scaled PBX, billing, and outbound platforms on projects that generated $1M+ in revenue and earned a Top Rated Plus reputation on Upwork. He combines deep systems-level tuning (Redis, Service Bus, Triton) with applied AI and voice-bot experience using OpenAI and speech stacks, and has a track record of mentoring engineers into senior roles. Notably, he authored a reusable Python RSA encryption library and a Triton pod supervisor for centralized real-time logging across hundreds of instances. Based in Flower Mound, Texas, he pairs an MS in Mathematics & Computer Science with a pragmatic focus on cost-efficient, observable, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mathematics and Computer Science, A-, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics and Computer Science, A- at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko UniversityBachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (47)
asterisk7
django7
pbx6
replit6
voip6
python6
sip6
azure5
gerrit5
telephony5
kamailio5
monitoring4
mysql4
proxy4
pjsip4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
arheops/asterisk_nrpe_checks
Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
arheops/kamailio_redirect_simple
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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