Alexander Azarov
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlexander Azarov is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Cloud FinOps with a Ph.D. in a STEM field and over 16 years of hands-on industry experience built on a 30-year technical background. He blends deep systems and infrastructure expertise—from bare metal to cloud-native platforms—with leadership experience as a former CTO and founding engineer who has driven CI/CD, observability, security, and zero-downtime deployments. At Meta and multiple high-growth companies he focused on developer infrastructure and data ingestion, and now applies that operational rigor to cost-aware cloud engineering at HTS. Based in London, he pairs academic rigor from MIPT with pragmatic product delivery, and is particularly strong at turning complex infrastructure challenges into reliable, scalable systems that balance performance and cost.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Ph.D. at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
13,081reputation
1.5mreached
164answers
5questions
proxy
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mongodb
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caching
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nginx
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scala
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linux
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Github Skills (200)
expressjs10
bash10
eip10
apache-camel10
ubuntu10
security10
ruby10
monero10
microservices10
encryption10
srcset10
reactive10
vpn10
debian10
centos10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alaz/hackerrank
Dec 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
alaz/wolt
May 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 5 years 1 month
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