Alex Skorokhod
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolAlex Skorokhod is a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms, automation, and analytics products for finance, media and enterprise clients. He combines deep data-science roots (M.A. in Economics, econometrics) with hands-on cloud architecture and cost-optimisation, having halved infrastructure spend and delivered a 90% smooth production release rate at Macquarie. Alex has led migrations to AWS/GCP, designed serverless ETL/Data Lake solutions and productionised ML workflows (SageMaker, Spark, XGBoost), while also driving team development and mentoring that promoted 75% of his mentees. A pragmatic problem-solver, he pairs reproducible-research practices and CI with security and compliance disciplines to turn complex analytics into reliable, auditable products. He also contributes to open-source frontend integrations (e.g., Codescoop work on the SW360 project), reflecting a full-stack curiosity beyond backend systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master, International Economics, Master, International Economics at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (KIMO)M.A., Economics (statistics, mathematics, econometrics,finance), M.A., Economics (statistics, mathematics, econometrics,finance) at Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE), Charles University in Prague
English, Ukrainian, Czech, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
apim10
javascript10
api10
front-end-development10
html9
css9
apache-spark6
spotfire6
etl6
shiny6
aws-glue6
pyspark6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-s36
r6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-sw360/sw360
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
SW360 project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 9 PRs, 40 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the frontend of the SW360 project by implementing features related to the integration of the Codescoop tool. Their work included the creation of JavaScript modules for the Codescoop integration, supporting autocomplete functionality, and integrating with various API endpoints. Furthermore, the user updated the component properties handling and the subcategories model for the Codescoop features, likely impacting the component's management and data fetching.
javasw360
codescoop/sw360
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
This is a public integration of codescoop plugin into sw360. Use codescoop/integration branch to submit code upstream
Contributions:2 PRs, 93 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year
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