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 (69)
tracks8
log-in8
kamailio7
mysql-proxy7
sdk7
python7
telephony7
percona7
replit6
django6
visitors6
azure6
freeswitch6
webrtc6
sip6
Programming languages (7)
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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