Summary
Alexander Panfilov is a senior software engineer based in San Jose with 13 years of experience building production-grade, secure web services and authorization systems. He has led teams and owned authentication platforms—implementing OAuth2, 2FA, WebAuthn, and anti-bruteforce defenses—for high-traffic properties at Mail.Ru Group and later contributed to engineering efforts at Booking.com, HubSpot, and Meta. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and as a manager of a 12-engineer team, he combines deep backend systems expertise with a track record of improving uptime and operational efficiency across dozens of services. Trained in applied mathematics, he brings a methodical, security-first mindset to designing scalable authentication and authorization infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
English, Russian