Alexander Olekhnovich
Staff Software Engineer at Aiven
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Olekhnovich is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and leading cloud-native backend systems. He blends deep Python expertise (Flask/Django/DRF) with strong AWS architecture skills and a history of working with distributed data stores like Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, and Elasticsearch. As a former founder and long-time tech lead, he routinely moves ideas from MVP to production and mentors teams on platform and infrastructure at scale. His tenure spans fast-moving startups and larger engineering orgs (Aiven, Vimcar, Zalando), reflecting an ability to balance shipping features with robust infrastructure. Notably, he pairs systems engineering roots and C/C++ experience with modern microservices practice, enabling pragmatic trade-offs between performance and developer velocity.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Belarusian State UniversityEngineer's Degree, Systems Engineering, Engineer's Degree, Systems Engineering at Polacki Dzjaržauny Universitet
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (101)
postgresql10
pitr10
mysql-backup10
recovery10
backup10
cloud-object-storage10
database-backups10
django10
push-notifications10
json10
point-in-time10
aws-cloudwatch10
aiven10
wns10
sender10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Aiven-Open/aiven-mysql-migrate
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
MySQL® migration tool
Contributions:21 reviews, 22 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 10 months
mysqldatabase-migrationsdatabasemysql-migrationmigration
alexole/django-user-metrics
Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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