Alexander Burakovskiy
Engineering Manager at Taker
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlexander Burakovskiy is an engineering manager and hands-on solution architect with over a decade building scalable web and mobile systems across PHP, Node.js/TypeScript and Ruby stacks. He blends team leadership with deep backend expertise (MySQL/Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch) and cloud/DevOps proficiency on AWS, Docker and CI/CD to deliver high-performance, reliable applications. A pragmatic advocate of TDD, design patterns and refactoring, he routinely shapes architecture, reviews code and mentors engineers to raise overall product quality. His recent roles span Engineering Manager at Taker and full-stack work at Luxury Escapes, illustrating an ability to operate at both strategic and implementation levels in fast-moving teams. Based in Ontario, he brings an uncommon combination of legacy PHP mastery (“PHP never die”) and modern TypeScript/React experience, enabling pragmatic migrations and cross-platform solutions. Collected from startup to enterprise projects, his background shows a pattern of improving stability and delivery velocity through automation and thoughtful system design.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Software for computer-aided systems, Bachelor's Degree, Software for computer-aided systems at Kharkiv National University of Radio ElectronicsMaster's Degree, Physics, Master's Degree, Physics at Kherson State University
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
brackets10
chat-application9
e-mail9
php8
lumen-framework8
react-component8
messenger8
rendering8
multidimensional8
mysql7
geospatial7
laravel7
rest7
inverted-index7
gis7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aburakovskiy/laravel-antpool-api
Dec 2017 - Mar 2020
Laravel PHP Facade/Antpool for the Antpool API
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 3 months
laravelphpantpoolantpool-apilaravel-5-package
taker-io/lib-http-client
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 4 months
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