Summary
Alexander Derekh is a product-focused technologist and Product Owner based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building high-impact software across automotive, mapping, backup, gaming, and P2P domains. He blends C++ and Python engineering chops with product leadership—owning features like Mapbox’s electronic horizon that helped enable in-car navigation partnerships with BMW and shipping revenue-driving backup features at SolarWinds. Alexander has repeatedly improved performance and delivery—reducing memory and build times at Wargaming, accelerating incident resolution at BitTorrent, and establishing Git workflows and CI/CD practices that sped releases. Comfortable bridging stakeholders and engineering teams, he writes clear requirements, design docs, and MVPs while mentoring peers on practical tooling and workflows. Outside work he follows emerging tech, cars, and football, and brings a pragmatic engineer’s curiosity to product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Russian, English, Russian