Aleksei Romanenko
Senior Software Engineer at Clinician Nexus
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Romanenko is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable, production-grade systems using Go, PHP, Postgres, Docker, and Kubernetes, currently based in Minneapolis. He has delivered high-throughput services—such as a Go-based push notification pipeline that reached 40M devices in two hours—and led zero-downtime migrations replacing legacy PHP with modern Go microservices. Alex combines platform and DevOps expertise (Terraform, AWS, GitLab CI/CD) with MLops exposure from recent roles, and contributes to notable open-source projects like k9s and GoReplay, where his fixes and features improved UX and reliability. A conference organizer for Codefest and DevFest Siberia, he brings both community leadership and deep technical craftsmanship to startups and large teams alike, and holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Novosibirsk State University. He is also a U.S. green card holder, open to roles that blend platform engineering, DevOps, and systems-level development.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
English, Russian
Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
symfony-bundle10
grids10
php10
go10
grid10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
datagrid10
twig10
k8s10
testing9
devops9
docker8
ui-testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
derailed/k9s
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 6 commits, 17 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Aleksei primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Kubernetes CLI tool. Their work included resolving issues related to context switching, color settings, and deleting port forwards, impacting the user interface and overall functionality. Furthermore, the user introduced new features, specifically showing "UsedBy" information for PriorityClasses. Their contributions span across multiple files, including those related to UI, configuration, and data access, indicating a broad involvement in the project.
kubernetes-clik9skuberneteskubernetes-clustersk8s
probelabs/goreplay
May 2020 - Jun 2020
GoReplay is an open-source tool for capturing and replaying live HTTP traffic into a test environment in order to continuously test your system with real data. It can be used to increase confidence in code deployments, configuration changes and infrastructure changes.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 17 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aleksei's contributions primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the build process and testing infrastructure. This involved resolving issues within the testing framework, updating dependencies, and ensuring the project's compatibility with different Go versions. The user also made changes related to the project's build environment, including modifications to the Dockerfile and the integration of Java dependencies. Furthermore, the user addressed concurrency issues within the plugin system and corrected an error in the file size calculations for gzipped outputs.
gotestingtesting-toolsdevopsqa
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