Alexander Lyabah
Full-stack Developer at Occipital
Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Lyabah is a full-stack developer and entrepreneurial founder with 12+ years building playful, education-focused web products and games. As Founder and CTO of CheckiO (Techstars Boston alum), he led development of CheckiO and Empire of Code—platforms that blend coding puzzles with game mechanics—and helped raise $750K while owning a broad AWS/Docker/Python/Django/React stack. Now at Occipital, he continues shipping full-stack systems and bringing game-like learning experiences to production-grade infrastructure. His background spans backend systems, real-time game logic (Phaser, Tornado, Twisted), and devops automation, reflecting a comfort from low-level servers to client-side interactions. Based in Ukraine, he pairs hands-on engineering with product intuition, often experimenting at the intersection of coding education and competitive gameplay.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
128Dnipropetrovs'kij Nacional'nij Universitet
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (199)
python10
django-framework10
xadmin10
django10
django-admin10
brackets10
collections10
median10
roman-numerals10
absolute10
row10
orm10
buzz10
web-framework10
rendering9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CheckiO-Missions/checkio-mission-largest-histogram
Oct 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
CheckiO/eoc-numbers
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 month
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