Summary
Alexander Akimov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Kyiv with 10+ years building and architecting e‑commerce and distributed systems for companies like SPS Commerce, Adobe, Magento, and eBay. He specializes in microservice architectures, TDD, and cloud-native platforms (Java, Go, Python on Kubernetes/OpenShift and AWS), and routinely leads design, refactoring, and code review efforts. Alexander pairs hands‑on implementation with mentoring and process improvements, having served as a Scrum Master and driven best practices that boost team efficiency. His background in information security and early experience in penetration testing inform a pragmatic, security-aware approach to feature design and incident resolution. Colleagues know him for delivering clean, testable code and for bridging product, UX, and support to ship robust e‑commerce capabilities at scale.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, French, German, Ukrainian, Russian