Alexander Kaloshin
CEO CTO & Founder at Last.Backend
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Kaloshin is a founder-CEO and hands-on CTO with 11+ years in software engineering and over a decade leading DevOps and cloud-native infrastructure initiatives. He conceived and built Last.Backend, an open-source container management platform that predates mainstream Kubernetes adoption and has earned 1.6k+ GitHub stars, reflecting real community traction. Comfortable shipping backend systems in Golang, he pairs deep engineering chops with product instincts from earlier product management roles, enabling him to turn infrastructure ideas into investor-backed startups. His work spans designing distributed systems, automating complex deployments with IaC, and introducing service mesh architectures in production using Istio and Argo CD. Based in St. Petersburg, he blends entrepreneurial grit with continued conference-speaking and open-source engagement, often favoring a developer workflow centered on fish, tmux and Emacs.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist of Computer Science computer systems and programming, Specialist of Computer Science computer systems and programming at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation
English, Russian, German, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
golang10
go10
backend10
dockers9
cil9
docker9
cd9
devops8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
undassa/vimops
Dec 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
lastbackend/website
Dec 2016 - Jul 2018
Last.Backend main website
Contributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 7 months
backendnodejsmongodb
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