Alexander Danilenko
Chief Software Architect at HireGlobal
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Danilenko is a seasoned software architect and leader with 14+ years of professional experience and a lifelong passion for building software that began in high school. As Chief Software Architect at Toptal and HireGlobal, he blends hands-on technical design with mentorship, running autonomous architect teams and driving architecture standards for platforms serving tens of thousands of users. His background spans startups (CTO and technical co-founder roles) to large-scale enterprise development, giving him a rare fluency in both rapid product iteration and disciplined platform engineering. He champions team autonomy and collaborative decision-making, and is known for turning unreliable environments into robust, user-focused systems—drawing on deep full-stack and distributed-systems experience from kiosk hardware to core platform ETL.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Applied Mathematics and Physics, Master of Science - MS Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian, Portuguese
Github Skills (17)
activesupport10
timezone9
rails6
scala6
ruby6
java6
activerecord5
mass3
sublime1
pdf1
security1
sublime-text1
pentesting1
html-to-pdf1
ruby-on-rails1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
doz/time_zone_ext
Jun 2012 - Aug 2016
Adds #strptime method to ActiveSupport::TimeZone
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 2 months
railsmethodrubyactivesupporttimezone
doz/attr_ability
Jun 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 7 months
security-toolssecuritypentestingcancanabilities
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