Alex Soloviev
Co-Creator & Software Engineer
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Soloviev is a Toronto-based full-stack software engineer with nine years of experience building web applications and cloud-native infrastructure using Ruby, JavaScript, Node.js, React, Ruby on Rails, Docker, Kafka, and various AWS services. As co-creator of Crato, he engineered an open-source, containerized logging framework that processes Kafka streams and persists data to InfluxDB and S3 while preserving data ownership, and authored its white paper and CLI for easy deployment. He has a track record of shipping practical open-source projects—from Trello-like PM tools to interactive React maps—and brings hands-on expertise in data pipelines and deployment automation. Prior roles range from freelance development to product-focused engineering at startups, complemented by early experience as a crew leader in wildfire operations, which honed his risk assessment and decision-making under pressure. With formal training from Launch School and a BSc in Science and Business from Waterloo, he blends disciplined engineering practices with product sensibility.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering & Full Stack Web Development, Software Engineering & Full Stack Web Development at Launch SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Science and Business, Bachelor of Science - BS Science and Business at University of Waterloo
Russian, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (21)
estimate10
rsyslog6
react-component-library6
operation6
aws-s35
nodejs5
docker-compose5
kafka4
cli-app4
docker4
logging4
influxdb3
monitoring3
ats3
warehouse3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alex-solo/7-words
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
Learn 7 random words in a given language
Contributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year
nlprandom-wordswords
alex-solo/ticketing
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:50 PRs, 83 pushes, 8 branches in 16 days
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