Summary
Alex Shivert is a pragmatic Middle Java Software Engineer with over a decade in IT and more than 3 years focused on backend and integration work at companies such as Mail.ru Group, EPAM, and Rostelecom. He specializes in Spring-based microservices (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud), Kafka integrations, PostgreSQL and Redis data layers, and Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments, with regular use of testing tools like JUnit, Mockito and Wiremock. Alex brings hands-on experience in both SOAP/WSdl and modern REST ecosystems, having built CRM integrations with Amdocs and contributed to architectural decisions and code reviews. He is comfortable with operational concerns—editing k8s configs, creating OpenAPI specs, and tuning production defects—and mentors junior engineers. Colleagues describe him as open, sociable and cheerful, which complements his steady focus on refactoring, optimization and reliable service delivery. A background in computational mathematics and cybernetics underpins his methodical approach to system design and database normalization.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Faculty of computational mathematics and Cybernetics (CMC), Bachelor, Faculty of computational mathematics and Cybernetics (CMC) at MGUniversity