Alexander Hitrov
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Hitrov is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Vilnius with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack and cloud-native systems across fintech, health tech, and enterprise domains. He combines deep PHP/Laravel backend expertise with modern front-end stacks (React/TypeScript), mobile (React Native), and cloud automation—recently contributing an OCI automation tool that resiliently handles "out of host capacity" errors and adds CI/CD and tests. A proven tech lead, he has driven product APIs, payment integrations, B2B onboarding, and localization at scale, and stepped into interim leadership roles to stabilize growing teams. Comfortable across AWS, Oracle Cloud, Docker, and relational and blockchain-backed databases, he brings pragmatic engineering trade-offs and operational ownership. Relocated to Lithuania on an EU Blue Card, he’s open to global opportunities and often surfaces elegant automation fixes that reduce operational toil.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree (incomplete) Telecommunications Marketing, Bachelor's degree (incomplete) Telecommunications Marketing at Belarusian State Academy of Telecommunications
Github Skills (16)
error-handling10
php10
cloud-infrastructure10
cloud-services10
api10
apidoc10
api-design9
restful-api9
cicd9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
rest-api9
api-rest9
testing8
dockers7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hitrov/oci-arm-host-capacity
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
This script allows to bypass Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 'Out of host capacity' error immediately when additional OCI capacity will appear in your Home Region / Availability domain.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:46 commits, 28 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the backend logic, specifically addressing the "Out of host capacity" error in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). They implemented error handling, updated the README, and added checks for existing instances. The user also refactored the code into classes, added testing, and integrated GitHub Actions for CI/CD. The focus of the work was on automating the creation of instances within the OCI environment using PHP and interacting with the OCI API.
oracleoracle-cloud-infrastructure
hitrov/oci-api-php-request-sign
Feb 2021 - May 2022
This package generates proper HTTP headers to sign Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API requests https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/signingrequests.htm. Please consider as mini OCI PHP SDK due to missing official one.
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 3 months
api-requestshttp-headeriaasoracleoracle-cloud-infrastructure
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