Alex Mironov is a Staff Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with over a decade of experience building high-availability distributed systems and customer-facing products. He has led SRE and infrastructure teams at Booking.com responsible for a multi-regional streaming platform processing millions of messages per second and currently improves developer experience and internal tooling at Stripe. Alex combines hands-on systems design with people leadership, driving latency- and delivery-focused SLOs for mission-critical use cases like payments, real-time threat detection and A/B experimentation. His background includes launching mobile checkout experiences and introducing observability and CI/CD practices early in product lifecycles. Comfortable across backend services, streaming platforms, and developer tooling, he focuses on making engineers more productive while keeping platforms rock-solid. Collected experience from startups to large-scale operations gives him a pragmatic, reliability-first approach to engineering trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
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