Alexander Menshchikov
Dean Of The Faculty Of Secure Information Technologies
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
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Top SchoolAlexander Menshchikov is a cybersecurity-focused engineering leader with 12 years of experience, currently serving as Dean of the Faculty of Secure Information Technologies and Director of the Cybersecurity Training and Practice Center at ITMO University. He holds a PhD in Computer and Information Systems Security and blends academic rigor with hands-on engineering management, having led development teams and DevOps efforts in Python and Go. An active member of CodeX and SPbCTF, he contributes to open-source front-end projects such as the popular block-style editor editor.js, improving UX and robustness through feature work and bug fixes. He has a track record of teaching and mentoring—from university lecturing and summer schools to training at Kaspersky—bringing practical CTF-driven security insights into curricula and team practices. Based in St. Petersburg, he pairs research credentials with practical product delivery, often surfacing subtle usability and tooling improvements that make secure systems easier to build and maintain.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Graduated with honors, Specialist, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Graduated with honors at Siberian Federal University (former Krasnoyarsk State University)Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at ITMO UniversityHigh School, Graduated with honors, High School, Graduated with honors at Gimnasia 3, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Russian, English
Github Skills (10)
editors10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
ui-design10
editor10
typescript-types10
css9
json9
html8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
codex-team/editor.js
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
A block-style editor with clean JSON output
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 16 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the front-end development of the block-style editor. Their work included implementing new features like adding and deleting blocks, and integrating a link tool. They also addressed bugs related to pasting content and tab-to-space conversion, and refactored code. Further contributions were made to the styling of the editor components.
json-outputcodex-editorwysiwygjavascriptredactor
codex-team/codex.bot
Apr 2017 - Feb 2022
Working team assistant
Contributions:2 reviews, 87 commits, 55 PRs in 4 years 10 months
assistant
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