Alexander Perfilyev is an Android Performance Engineer with over 10 years of mobile development experience, currently optimizing app performance at Tinkoff in Moscow. He combines deep Android engineering with backend and database expertise, contributing to CashApp's widely used SQLDelight project by improving its IntelliJ plugin and type-safe Kotlin SQL tooling. Previously he led performance and architecture efforts at Sberbank and OZON, building analytics SDKs, background processing for chat rendering, and a company-wide design system. He has a track record of shipping production SDKs, reducing battery drain, and mentoring and hiring engineers across large teams. Notably, his open-source work demonstrates uncommon fluency in SQL, Kotlin, and IDE plugin development that directly improves developer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Degree Design and technology of electronic equipment, Specialist Degree Design and technology of electronic equipment at Russian State Technological University named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky (MATI)
SQLDelight - Generates typesafe Kotlin APIs from SQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:38 reviews, 99 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the SQLDelight project by implementing new features and improving existing ones related to the IntelliJ plugin. This includes supporting in-place rename functionalities, adding import quick fixes for unknown types, and developing an inspection for unused imports. The contributions demonstrate expertise in SQL, Kotlin, and plugin development for the IntelliJ platform, enhancing the developer experience with SQLDelight.
SQLDelight - Generates typesafe Kotlin APIs from SQL
Contributions:5 PRs, 242 pushes, 149 branches in 3 years 4 months
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Alexander Perfilyev - Android Performance Engineer at Tinkoff