Alexander Nyrkov
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Nyrkov is a Staff Software Engineer and engineering leader based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience building and scaling web products across frontend and backend stacks. He has led cross-functional teams at Uber and Yandex, shipping complex UI systems, SSR-enabled Node.js backends, and design systems while establishing TDD-driven, CI/CD-friendly workflows. Comfortable across TypeScript/React, Java, Python, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, he repeatedly modernized legacy codebases without full rewrites and built in-house frameworks and developer tooling to improve delivery and maintainability. Known for hiring and mentoring practices, he pairs hands-on implementation with mid- and long-term technical strategy and measurable improvements in quality and estimation accuracy. A pragmatist who favors incremental change, he also brings occasional DevOps and accessibility responsibility for 24/7 critical services.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Russian State Geological Prospecting University named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze
English, Russian
Github Skills (54)
autocomplete10
testing9
javascript9
facebook9
language-server-protocol9
typescript9
filetype9
checker9
steam9
proton8
linting8
wine8
neovim-plugin8
neomake8
language-server8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nyrkovalex/.dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
nyrkovalex/iron-admin
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 8 pushes in 3 months
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