Summary
Alexander Makarov is a Staff Engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating enterprise IT and identity solutions. He has progressed from system administrator roles through technical leadership to staff-level engineering at Adyen, specializing in Okta integrations, adaptive MFA, SAML/SCIM, and large-scale access management across complex hybrid environments. Alexander combines deep infrastructure skills—VMware, Veeam, Microsoft, SANs—and healthcare IT integrations (HL7, EMR) with a disciplined, security-minded approach to designing roadmaps and operational runbooks. He is comfortable translating CIO-level strategy into technical requirements and vendor-agnostic architectures, and his “practice makes perfect” ethos manifests in meticulous documentation and repeatable deployment patterns. An engineering generalist who thrives on interoperability challenges, he often surfaces risks early and drives pragmatic, auditable solutions across cross-functional teams.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Management Technology Entrepreneurship / Acceleration of IT Startups, Master of Management Technology Entrepreneurship / Acceleration of IT Startups at State University of Management (SUM)
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Systems Complexes and Networks, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Systems Complexes and Networks at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Russian, English