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.
14 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 (13)
strptime9
java7
scala6
mass3
sublime-text2
sublime2
pentesting1
rails1
cancan1
ruby-on-rails1
wkhtmltopdf1
ruby1
security1
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
strptime
doz/attr_ability
Jun 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 7 months
security-toolssecuritypentestingcancanabilities
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