Alexander Kucheev
Senior Engineering Manager at Yandex
Belgrade, Central Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Kucheev is a seasoned backend engineer and engineering manager with 13 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native systems and the last six years leading Kinopoisk’s backend at Yandex. He currently manages four backend teams (≈17 engineers) while remaining an active contributor to production Java/Kotlin code, driving architecture standards and delivery discipline across ~30 services and ~90K RPS. His pragmatic, metrics-driven approach has multiplied story throughput 2.6×, shrunk shared modules by ~19% in an 800-module codebase, and produced company-wide engineering dashboards adopted by 150 teams. Alexander combines deep system design (DDD, CQRS, event sourcing) with delivery tooling expertise—he’s shipped CI-driven ownership bots, dependency checks, and self-service R&D tools that materially reduced coordination overhead. Comfortable in polyglot stacks (Java/Kotlin, Python, TypeScript), he moves quickly across domains—an example being a dramatic API performance win (3s → 25ms) early in his Kinopoisk tenure. He is now seeking senior architect-level roles where he can pair platform-level system design with targeted team leadership.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied mathematics, Master's degree, Applied mathematics at Far Eastern Federal University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (15)
yii10
php10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
configuration-management9
caching8
mysql-db8
mysql8
java6
ocr6
javacv6
image-recognition6
linux6
laravel6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yupe/yupe
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Yupe! is an open source Yiiframework-based online e-commerce solution. Demo https://demo.yupe.ru/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Yupe! e-commerce platform's backend functionality. Their work included adding and modifying modules, specifically the ContentBlockModule, and refactoring settings management within the application. They also focused on code style improvements, like converting to camelCase, and optimizing performance by changing settings fetching to static calls. Additionally, the user addressed console usage and added core cache time to editable parameters.
ecommerceyiicommercephpyii-framework
gorcer/iseeyou-anrp
Jun 2013 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 79 commits, 43 pushes in 3 years
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