Alexander Kukushkin
Russia
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Top SchoolAlexander Kukushkin is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building high-availability systems across databases, online games, web portals and billing platforms. He combines deep expertise in database performance, administration and cloud technologies with full-lifecycle delivery—from requirements and architecture to performance tuning and long-term support. His background includes a decade at Zalando working on Patroni-style PostgreSQL reliability and now leading platform-level engineering at Microsoft, reflecting a strong track record in operating distributed data systems at scale. Early work on multiplayer game servers and custom telemetry tools reveals a practical knack for optimizing resource flows and reducing operational cost. Trained in applied mathematics and physics at MIPT, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to complex troubleshooting and refactoring challenges.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer systems, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer systems at Национальный Исследовательский Ядерный Университет «МИФИ» (бывший Московский Инженерно-Физический Институт)Специалист, Компьютерные системы и технологии, Специалист, Компьютерные системы и технологии at Московский Физико-Технический Институт (Государственный Университет) (МФТИ)
English, Russian
Github Skills (146)
tuple10
python10
tqdm10
lda10
datasets10
earley-parser10
deep-learning10
computational-linguistics10
quantization10
information-extraction10
corpus-linguistics10
glove10
word2vec10
corpus10
katakana10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
natasha/naeval
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Comparing quality and performance of NLP systems for Russian language
Contributions:80 commits, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 2 years 10 months
natural-language-processingevaluationperformance-analysisnlppython
natasha/yargy
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Rule-based facts extraction for Russian language
Contributions:145 commits, 9 PRs, 48 pushes in 5 years 10 months
nlptomitapythonextractionmorphology
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