Alex Stepankov is a seasoned full-stack engineer and technology leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as CTO & Co-Founder after leading development teams at Skyeng and SimbirSoft. He combines hands-on expertise across front-end and back-end stacks (.NET Core, PHP, TS/JS, C++) with proven delivery leadership, having driven 20+ enterprise projects and instituted CI/CD and microservices practices that cut release times and defects significantly. As a team lead he scaled Agile teams, championed code quality through reviews and pair programming, and maintained strong client-facing communication that earned high satisfaction ratings. Known for pragmatic architecture and operational focus, he has hands-on experience with DevOps tooling (Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, GitHub/GitLab CI) and partial ML/auto-testing initiatives. Based in Batumi, Georgia, he brings entrepreneurial energy to his CTO role while retaining a developer’s curiosity from an early freelance background and formal training in software engineering. An understated strength is his track record of reducing delivery cycles and driving measurable productivity improvements across diverse domains including finance, healthcare, and telecom.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Dimitrovgrad Pedagogical Lyceum
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Contributions:20 PRs, 44 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
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Alex Stepankov - CTO & Co-Founder at Self-employed