Alexander Baranov
Director Of Software Engineering at Autto.com
Santa Rosa, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Baranov is a director-level software engineering leader with a decade of hands-on experience scaling products from zero to multi-million dollar ARR and owning platform architecture and delivery. He blends full-stack fluency—Ruby, Node, React, GraphQL, Postgres, MongoDB—with practical DevOps and CI/CD know-how to ship resilient, production-grade systems across fintech, health, and insurance domains. A co-founder and mentor, he still writes critical code and drove notable open-source contributions such as implementing ED25519 signatures and refactoring robustness into the widely used ruby-jwt library. Based in Santa Rosa, he pairs strategic technology leadership with day-to-day engineering instincts, often stepping into complex debugging, threading, and integration challenges that accelerate team velocity.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) at Indian River State College
English, Russian, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
ecdsa10
jwt10
ruby10
rsa9
algorithms9
hmac9
algorithm9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jwt/ruby-jwt
Sep 2017 - May 2018
A ruby implementation of the RFC 7519 OAuth JSON Web Token (JWT) standard.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 8 PRs, 14 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexander implemented the ED25519 signature scheme, along with refactoring the signing and verification logic. They moved each signature strategy into separate classes, improving code organization and maintainability. Further improvements include adding tests and fixing threading issues, ensuring the library's robustness. Additionally, the user refactored the code to remove whitespace and improved code quality.
ruby-jwttokenauthenticationjson-web-tokenruby
gaiasys/silcton
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
Geo Spatial Awareness Testing Application
Contributions:6 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
awarenessgeo-spatialgeospatialtesting
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