Alexander Kozhenkov
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Kozhenkov is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience designing and operating distributed, cloud-native systems, currently contributing at MongoDB from Raleigh, NC. He has led engineering teams and built production-grade microservices and data platforms across startups and enterprise products, notably improving throughput, scalability, and availability in airline operations, in-memory databases, and government analytics. Technically fluent in Java, Kotlin/Groovy, Spring, Kafka, Kubernetes, and databases from PostgreSQL to Apache Ignite and Elasticsearch, he routinely drives performance and storage optimizations that cut costs and latency by multiple factors. At Farel he shipped a multi-provider payments module and raised test coverage from 7% to 90% with Testcontainers; at GridGain he redesigned storage and processing to enable cloud-market readiness and a 99.9% SLA. He enjoys sharing knowledge through conference and meetup talks, signaling strong communication alongside hands-on delivery. An O-1 visa holder with a master’s from ITMO, he combines deep backend engineering with a knack for turning complex requirements into pragmatic, high-impact systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU)Master's degree, Software Engineering, Master's degree, Software Engineering at ITMO University
Github Skills (37)
selenium-webdriver10
testing10
docker-compose10
java10
junit10
docker-container10
integration-testing10
jvm9
selenium9
docker9
databases9
osgi9
test-automation9
throwaway9
database8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wirtsleg/k8s-deployment
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:51 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
shuto4ka/topjava
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:104 pushes, 11 branches in 3 months
jpa-hibernatespring-mvcspring-securitybootstrap-csscss
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