Alexander Chernyshev is a pragmatic engineering leader with two decades of cross-industry experience and a decade focused on software delivery, now leading backend and architecture efforts at Tinkoff from Moscow. He blends hands-on Python development, containerization and Kubernetes PoCs with product-minded R&D—translating market research into concrete architecture changes and lightweight data platforms like the Helicopter notebooks ecosystem. Prior roles span systems automation, storage solution architecture, and international presales at Seagate and IBM, giving him rare fluency across Dev, Ops, and customer-facing technical strategy. Comfortable rebuilding monoliths into microservices, he also runs full-stack fast-data apps with Streamlit and automates deployments and SSO flows in production. Colleagues rely on him to “sell” technical change across teams and to balance practical constraints with long-term platform vision.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Oil fields exploitation, Master, Oil fields exploitation at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University)
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 2 years 8 months
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Alexander Chernyshev - Lead Software Engineer at Tinkoff