Alex Merkulov
Senior Software Engineer at Pixela Labs
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Merkulov is a Senior Software Engineer with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing, migrating, and operating complex distributed systems across cloud, embedded, and IoT domains. He combines deep expertise in Kubernetes, Helm, Docker (including DIND and Swarm), and CI/CD (Jenkins/JenkinsX, GitLab/GitHub Actions, CircleCI) with extensive multi-cloud practice on AWS and GCP to build cost-effective, scalable solutions. A longtime contributor to Activiti BPM, Alex has helped cloud-enable BPMN engines and implemented process-level improvements like parent-child process tracking and richer task payloads. He’s equally comfortable in low-level C++ embedded work and architecting Java microservices with messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ and Kafka, and has a strong theoretical math background that informs robust system design. Notably, he has bridged game/VR development (Unreal Engine) and IoT cloud support (CassiaAC, AWS Greengrass), demonstrating a rare blend of real-time, cloud-native, and edge expertise. Based in Ottawa, he brings practical project leadership, risk estimation, and a track record of closing the loop with Big Data analytics to deliver actionable intelligence.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (7)
javas10
activiti10
bpmn10
business-process10
java10
api-design9
spring9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Activiti/Activiti
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It's open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:180 commits, 23 PRs, 98 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the process instance API and task-related functionalities within the Activiti BPM platform. They added the "parentId" field to the process instance model, enabling the tracking of parent-child relationships between processes. They also implemented the addition of candidate groups and users within the task creation payload.
business-process-managementprocess-managementactivition-serverjava-application
Activiti/activiti-cloud-example-chart
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:32 PRs, 102 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
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