Alexander Meshcheryakov
Site Reliability Engineer at Intento, Inc.
Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Meshcheryakov is a Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining resilient production systems, currently based in Portugal and working at Intento. He combines hands-on DevOps and SRE practices to keep services reliable and performant, having progressed from support and presales roles into full-time infrastructure engineering. He contributes to open-source projects like zim-desktop-wiki, where he improved indexing performance, fixed a memory leak, and tightened security by migrating links to HTTPS—demonstrating attention to both efficiency and safety. Comfortable across the stack, he brings practical troubleshooting skills honed through deploying demo and preproduction environments earlier in his career. Known for pragmatic optimizations rather than flash, he favors measurable improvements (e.g., sqlite synchronous tweaks) that accelerate real-world workflows.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
МГПСШBauman Moscow State Technical University
Russian, English
Github Skills (7)
sqlite10
python10
wikipedia9
integrate8
html8
integrations8
system-integration8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki
Sep 2015 - Oct 2019
Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 83 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander focused on improving the performance and functionality of the Zim desktop wiki. They optimized the indexing process by disabling sqlite synchronous mode, leading to significant speed improvements. Additionally, they addressed a memory leak in a spellcheck plugin and replaced HTTP links with HTTPS for enhanced security. Finally, the user updated the project's website integration using a repology badge.
zimwikiproject-wikidesktop
Self-Perfection/zim-desktop-wiki
Aug 2017 - Sep 2021
Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
zimwikiproject-wikidesktop
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