Alexander Shagov
Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead at Smart Pension
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Shagov is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with over a decade of experience building and scaling fintech platforms, currently based in Dubai. He progressed from hands-on Ruby on Rails development to leading a cross-functional team at Smart Pension, where he shipped high-impact features like bulk employee imports (50k+ records) and designed services integrating with UK government systems via UMA. Comfortable owning both technical and partial engineering manager responsibilities, he mentors engineers, conducts hiring interviews, and enforces code quality across domains. His background includes contractor work at EPAM delivering SWIFT gateway integrations, observability improvements that halved log-analysis time, and local microservice tooling that accelerated developer onboarding. Pragmatic and developer-focused, Alexander combines deep Ruby/DevOps chops with real-world fintech compliance experience and a knack for simplifying complex operational workflows.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Control Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Control Systems Engineering at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Russian, English
Github Skills (27)
vim10
emacs10
spacemacs9
atomic9
developer-tools8
rails8
postgresql7
sql7
database7
activerecord7
spring-boot6
ruby6
folding6
refactoring5
java5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexshagov/dotfiles
Apr 2018 - Feb 2026
My configs
Contributions:38 PRs, 29 pushes, 40 branches in 7 years 11 months
karabinerconfigsconfigdotfileshammerspoon
alexshgov/rubizza-2018-testing
Jul 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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