Alex Novikov
Chief Technology Officer at Podlodka
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolAlex Novikov is a seasoned CTO with 13+ years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations and cloud-native systems, currently leading product, infrastructure and AI strategy from Warsaw. He combines hands-on backend expertise in Go and PHP (contributor and maintainer on notable projects like Spiral Framework and enhancements to the Laravel core) with proven delivery of highly available architectures (99.9999% availability) and large teams of up to 100 engineers. Alex is skilled at turning business goals into measurable technical roadmaps, optimizing CI/CD and cloud migrations, and introducing AI tooling such as OpenAI and GitHub Copilot to materially boost productivity. He’s also an active community builder—running conferences, mentoring speakers, and conducting 300+ technical interviews—so he brings both technical depth and strong people processes to every organisation he joins.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer science and engineering, Specialist, Computer science and engineering at Samara State Aerospace University
English, Russian, Polish
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Github Skills (41)
dependency-management10
url-routing10
integrate10
highlight10
laravel-mix10
testing10
table-html10
css10
enterprise-integration10
syntax-highlighter10
application-integration10
laravel10
render10
integrations10
tableview10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
LaravelRUS/SleepingOwlAdmin
Feb 2016 - Dec 2022
🦉 Administrative interface builder for Laravel (Laravel admin)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:71 releases, 710 commits, 286 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex appears to be involved in implementing and updating UI/UX components using CSS. Their work includes updates to the CSS file for Select2 components. The user's contributions point to making adjustments and implementing a specific styling, which suggests a focus on front-end development tasks within the project.
adminlaravel-crudinterface-builderphplaravel-admin
spiral/framework
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
High-Performance PHP Framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 275 reviews, 634 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the Spiral Framework's functionality by adding support for PHP 8.1 in the Dotenv bridge and migrating the project to the Cycle/Database package. They also refactored parts of the code to replace the spiral/database package with cycle/database, impacting multiple modules and components, including DataGrid and database commands. Additionally, the user worked on refactoring the Queue interfaces.
php-frameworkroadrunnerpsr-16spiralspiral-framework
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