Alexander Kukushkin
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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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.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PHD (unfinished) Plasma and High-Temperature Physics, PHD (unfinished) Plasma and High-Temperature Physics at Joint Institute for High TemperaturesMaster Applied mathematics and physics, Master Applied mathematics and physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian
Github Skills (178)
tuple10
parser10
sentence10
python10
tqdm10
earley-parser10
computational-linguistics10
text-processing10
quantization10
information-extraction10
glove10
word2vec10
corpus10
ram10
katakana10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
natasha/razdel
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Rule-based token, sentence segmentation for Russian language
Contributions:93 commits, 6 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years 3 months
nlpsentenceruletoken-basedsentence-segmentation
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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