Alexander F
Big Data Developer
Voronezh, Voronezh Oblast, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander F is a Big Data Developer with 11 years of experience and over 8 years focused on Scala, Python and Spark, delivering production ML feature pipelines and backend systems across startups and enterprises. Currently at Monzo, he built and documented hundreds of encrypted features for credit scoring and led integrations handling tens of millions of users, demonstrating strong product-minded engineering in regulated fintech. Previously he optimized large-scale Spark workloads and resource usage at VEON and Upwork, cutting costs and improving reliability, and at CST he drove high-throughput services that scaled to 25k RPS and boosted conversion via analytics-driven improvements. He combines deep distributed-data expertise (ClickHouse, Kafka, Postgres, Redis) with pragmatic DevOps skills (Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD) and a commitment to clean, well-documented code. An active open-source contributor, he has improved doctests and documentation in the widely used typelevel/cats library, showing attention to developer experience as well as performance.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Associate's degree at Moscow State UniversityPhd, Computer Science, Phd, Computer Science at Voronezh State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (6)
cat10
typesc10
functional-programming10
lib10
code-documentation10
scala10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
typelevel/cats
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Lightweight, modular, and extensible library for functional programming.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to adding and refining doctests within the `cats/data/OptionT.scala` file, a core component of the library. Their work focused on enhancing code documentation with examples, improving readability, and clarifying the intended usage of various `OptionT` methods. The contributions involved modifications to existing code blocks, including adjustments to the doctests to ensure they align with the updated functionality. The user also fixed indentation issues.
functional-programming
FelAl/learning-examples
Dec 2018 - Nov 2021
Code examples for the book Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
scalaconcurrent-programmingfunctional-programmingconcurrent
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