Alex Petrov
Member at The Apache Software Foundation
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Petrov is a database engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in distributed storage systems, correctness, and operational reliability at scale. Currently at Apple, he has driven major Apache Cassandra enhancements—transactions, Paxos improvements, fuzz testing, deterministic simulation, and internode messaging rewrites—while serving as an Apache Cassandra PMC member and committer. Previously he built high-throughput data pipelines as a founding engineer at Instana and helped migrate architectures and indexing models at DataStax and various startups. Based in Greater Munich, he pairs deep systems expertise with open-source leadership and an uncommon hobbyist focus on life simulation and GPGPU work that informs his simulation and testing approaches.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master Flexible Computer Systems and Robotics, Master Flexible Computer Systems and Robotics at East Ukrainan National University named after V. Dal
English, German, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (62)
html5-canvas10
excalibur10
virtual-dom9
router9
ecdsa9
html9
javascript8
game-engine7
rendering7
webgl7
dm7
scala7
2d-game7
typescript7
game-development7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
baturinsky/Scala-Ecc
Feb 2012 - Apr 2019
ECDSA signing lib in Scala
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 3 months
ecdsascala
baturinsky/2ap
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
XCOM-like in browser
Contributions:12 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
javascriptbrowserxcom
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