Alexander Pakulov
Staff Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Pakulov is a seasoned backend engineer with 15 years of experience designing and shipping distributed systems, microservice frameworks, and high-availability platforms from startup to scale. He has led cross-team, high-stakes initiatives at Stripe and Snap, including environment and fleet automation, zero-downtime migrations, and provisioning optimizations that materially reduced risk and operational complexity. At Fitbit he drove large migrations (Solr→Elasticsearch, ActiveMQ→Kafka), split monoliths with zero downtime, and introduced Cassandra and real-time messaging to improve scalability. A polyglot coder proficient in Java, Go, Ruby, and Python, he blends hands-on implementation with team-building and knowledge-transfer practices to accelerate engineering velocity. Based in San Francisco, he pairs deep systems expertise with a pragmatic focus on reducing cost and time-to-production.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Belarusian State University
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Github Skills (75)
ruby10
streaming10
kafka10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
homebrew10
service-discovery9
guice9
zipkin9
memcached9
linkerd9
finagle9
thrift8
slf4j8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apakulov/SoftU2F
Oct 2018 - Feb 2024
Software U2F authenticator for macOS
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
authenticatormacos
apakulov/kafka-graphite
Jun 2015 - Jul 2017
Graphite integration for Kafka
Contributions:30 commits, 5 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 1 month
kafka
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