Alex Volkov
Senior Software Developer at BriteCore
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex Volkov is a Senior Software Developer with 15 years of experience building reliable web applications, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tooling across Python, Linux, and cloud environments. He has driven technical delivery and mentoring in both government and enterprise settings, shaping deployment processes, release automation, and developer workflows at organizations such as EDB and the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. Hands-on work spans Django, FastAPI, React, Terraform, Github Actions, and AWS, with a pragmatic focus on test-driven development, automated deployments, and maintainable documentation. Alex is also an active community educator—organizing Python Canada and GTALUG and teaching Software Carpentry material—which reflects his emphasis on supportive, inclusive onboarding for new developers. Notably, he combines systems-level experience (Ansible, LDAP sync, ZODB backups) with modern serverless and packaging practices, making him comfortable across legacy and cloud-native stacks. Based in Ottawa, he brings a deliberate, mentorship-first approach to shipping practical, auditable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, B.A, Computer Science, B.A, B.A, Computer Science at York University
English, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
2,902reputation
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Github Skills (126)
python10
data-manipulation10
firmware10
esp3210
runner10
dataframes10
pandas10
avr10
vendor10
atmel10
data-science10
commercial10
data-analysis10
manipulation10
3d-printing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
avolkov/TLUG-Gmane-backup
Feb 2012 - Aug 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 2 years 6 months
avolkov/tpl-hackathon-xml2json
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:47 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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