Alexander Chernikov
Principal Software Engineer at The FreeBSD Project
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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SeniorAlexander Chernikov is a Principal Software Engineer based in Dublin with 13 years of deep expertise in networking and systems software, particularly FreeBSD, Linux, netmap, IPv6 and MPLS. He has built and optimized large-scale network infrastructure at Amazon, Facebook and Yandex and remains an active FreeBSD committer, blending production engineering with open-source stewardship. Known for low-level networking and routing software skills that span vendor environments (Cisco, Juniper) and high-performance I/O, he repeatedly bridges platform-level code to operational networks. Colleagues rely on him for solving thorny packet-processing and routing problems where protocol correctness meets carrier-scale performance.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (131)
atom-editor10
database10
storage10
persistent10
embeddable10
meta10
atom-plugin10
linux9
storage-engine9
opengl9
ansible9
logstash9
persistent-storage9
vte9
rust9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
abulimov/haproxy-lint
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:10 releases, 33 commits, 21 pushes in 25 days
abulimov/lyricstagger
Oct 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 release, 65 commits, 38 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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