Alexander Ryzhikov

Helsinki, Mainland Finland

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Alexander Ryzhikov is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Helsinki with 12 years of experience building full-stack systems across travel, e-commerce and DevTools. He leads multi-team technical initiatives from planning through delivery while continuing to contribute hands-on code in JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js. At Rapid he has shipped high-leverage platform features such as RapidAPI Studio, HTTP Client, Hub and a Design System, and champions micro-frontend architectures and improved service observability. An active open-source contributor, he has worked on the ReScript compiler and build system—helping resolve symlink issues and extend polymorphic variant support—bringing compiler-level rigor to product engineering. He combines a pragmatic focus on team autonomy and modern practices with a curiosity for integrating new technologies into marketplaces and admin tooling.

12 years of coding experience

Specialist degree, Economics, Specialist degree, Economics at Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI)

Russian, English, Finnish, Swedish

Github Skills (9)

rescript10

build-system10

package-management10

ocaml10

compiler-development10

javascript9

compiler-compiler8

compiler8

altjs8

Programming languages (17)

JavaCSSCScalaGoHTMLReasonKotlin

Github contributions (5)

rescript-lang/rescript

Dec 2019 - Jun 2020

ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:31 commits, 7 PRs, 73 comments in 5 months

Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the ReScript compiler and build system. Their work involved detecting and handling symlinks within package dependencies to prevent duplicate package warnings. They also updated the library dependencies and implemented features related to polymorphic variant support, which is an integral part of the ReScript language. Furthermore, the user added Ext_path.real_path and moved the real_path function to bsb.

altjscompilerjavascriptrescript

Coobaha/react-komposer

Oct 2017 - Nov 2023

Feed data into React components by composing containers.

Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months

containersreactjavascriptfeedreact-components

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