Alexander Grafov
VP Business Development at Parallel Graphics Ltd. trading as Cortona3D
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolAlexander Grafov is a VP of Business Development with over 20 years of deep PLM, CAD and enterprise systems experience and 13 years in senior industry roles, combining strategic planning, consulting and hands-on project leadership. He has led large implementations across aerospace, automotive and manufacturing, driving PLM/CAD/ERP integrations, department builds and ISO 15926-aligned data practices for customers like Boeing and Porsche. A certified Siemens Teamcenter specialist, he blends commercial negotiations with technical architecture skills and has hands-on Go development contributions—ranging from HLS playlist tooling to Grafana API clients—that reveal a practical appetite for backend engineering. Known for turning complex lifecycle and aftersales processes into automated, auditable systems, he also brings uncommon cross-domain fluency in import/dealership and warehouse management for automotive operations. Based in Dublin, he pairs academic rigor from Moscow Aviation Institute with a track record of advising executive teams at holdings and large enterprises.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD research student Faculty of Applied Physics and Мathematic, PhD research student Faculty of Applied Physics and Мathematic at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (28)
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
http10
grafana10
security10
go10
prometheus10
m3u10
rest-api10
hlsl10
testing9
front-end-development9
golang9
encryption9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
grafana-tools/sdk
Dec 2016 - Jan 2020
Library for using Grafana' structures in Go programs and client for Grafana REST API.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 73 commits, 45 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the `grafana-tools/sdk` repository, a Go library and client for Grafana. Their contributions involved refactoring code to merge packages, fixing paths within unit tests, and renaming for better consistency. They also fixed client methods and added API calls for datasources and users, including retrieving users and datasources by ID and getting available datasource types.
grafanaparsergeneratormonitoringnewrelic
grafov/m3u8
Feb 2013 - Nov 2019
Parser and generator of M3U8-playlists for Apple HLS. Library for Go language. :cinema:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 2 reviews, 334 commits in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alexander made several commits focused on enhancing the functionality of the M3U8 playlist parser and generator. They made changes related to improving buffer handling and implementing support for features such as setting encryption keys. The contributions included supporting the EXT-X-MEDIA tag for handling alternatives. Furthermore, the user's work involved the integration of Widevine tags.
playlist-generatorplsmanifestgo-languagevideo
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