Summary
Alexander Kazarin is a seasoned Linux software engineer and infrastructure leader with over a decade building and operating high‑load services across major Russian tech companies. Currently Head of CDN Operations at MTS Group, he previously led DevOps and data platform teams at Mail.Ru Group and VK, combining hands‑on Python, Perl, and Go development with deep systems and SRE experience. His background as a chief engineer at large telco operators honed his expertise in resilient architectures, capacity planning, and real‑time service reliability. Comfortable in DevOps environments, he bridges software development and system administration to deliver scalable, observable production systems. Notably, his career shows a steady progression from hands‑on ops to strategic leadership while retaining an engineer’s focus on tooling and automation. Based in Moscow, he brings practical experience running critical advertising and CDN infrastructures at internet scale.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian