Alexander Chernikov
Principal Engineer At T-Investment at Tinkoff
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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Top SchoolAlexander Chernikov is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years of experience building high-performance, large-scale backend systems and leading engineering organizations across fintech, e‑commerce, and logistics. He has a strong Golang background and a proven record of turning monoliths into resilient microservices, driving SLAs to 99.95% and tight latency targets (sub-70ms in anti-fraud decisioning). As a technical leader at Tinkoff, Yandex.Market, Yandex.Eats, Wildberries and OZON, he has repeatedly scaled teams (from single digits to hundreds), established architecture committees and shipped platform-level solutions that cut costs and time-to-market. He also blends hands-on engineering with teaching and outreach—speaking on Go courses and authoring articles for developer communities—while contributing to public coding profiles and competitive programming on LeetCode and StackOverflow. Notably, he led an ML-powered “Protect or Refund” initiative and built an IRIS-replacement MVP under strict SLA and latency constraints, demonstrating skill at delivering privacy-sensitive, production-grade security systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Информационные технологии, Master's degree Информационные технологии at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Английский, Испанский
Stackoverflow
1,904reputation
179kreached
83answers
15questions
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top-5%
Github Skills (91)
coverage10
embedded10
cpp10
mjpeg10
object-tracking10
test-coverage10
pattern10
face-tracking10
sql10
dynamic-programming10
database10
video-capture10
facebook10
big-data9
ai9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
frankegoesdown/preparing-facebook-interview
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
frankegoesdown/wb-leetcode
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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