Alexander Ptakhin
Technical Lead at Prestatech
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Ptakhin is a Technical Lead based in Berlin with 17 years of experience building high-throughput backend systems and full-stack products. He combines hands-on engineering—from C++ diagnostics and Python services to React UIs—with team leadership, having tech-led and mentored teams of up to four developers across startups and large companies. Alexander has designed and supported highly loaded services (including an architecture for a horizontally scaled crawler at ~6000 rps) and driven reliability and SLA improvements for internal data platforms. He is pragmatic about automation and testing, reducing manual work through integration testing and CI/CD, and contributes to open-source UI tooling such as MyGUI where he focused on Canvas and test automation. Comfortable negotiating with vendors and cloud partners, he blends system-level thinking with an emphasis on customer happiness and an open, collaborative team culture.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ogre3d10
ui-design9
interface-design9
architecture8
architectures8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MyGUI/mygui
Jan 2009 - Dec 2009
Fast, flexible and simple GUI.
Role in this project:
UI Developer & Test Automation Engineer
UI Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:69 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily worked on the MyGUI library, focusing on the `Canvas` widget. They implemented and refactored the `Canvas` class, adding features like texture creation, resizing modes, and methods for pixel manipulation. The user also added and maintained unit tests for the `Texture` and `Canvas` classes, indicating a focus on testing the library's core functionality. They also provided changes for demo applications to test the functionality of created components.
guidirectximguisimple-guiflexible
aptakhin/enji
Nov 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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