Alex Petrov
Sr. Software Engineer at Motorola Solutions
Schaumburg, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Petrov is a senior software engineer with 7+ years current tenure at Motorola Solutions and over two decades of experience designing high-availability, real-time telecommunications systems. He specializes in C and C++ development on Linux, with deep expertise in redundancy, failover, and call-control systems for public safety communications like ASTRO 25 and LTE push-to-talk services. Comfortable across the full development lifecycle, he pairs low-level systems programming with modern tooling (Python, PostgreSQL, gtest, Git) and a pragmatic Agile approach. His background in Linux administration and telecom engineering enables him to bridge platform, protocol (SIP/RTP/RTCP), and application layers to deliver resilient products. An early contributor to a major Solaris-to-Linux migration and author of a dynamic system resilience voter, he favors practical solutions that improve uptime under real-world constraints. Trained in computer science at Saint Petersburg State University and Kansas State, he brings academic rigor to mission-critical engineering.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Kansas State University
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Github Skills (11)
deserialization6
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databinding6
configurations6
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xunit6
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Github contributions (5)
ddimitrov-fmi/up-2022-2023
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:43 commits, 35 pushes in 3 months
PetrovAlex1/DataStructures
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
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