Alexander Sharov
Maintainer at tofuutils
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Sharov is a Staff DevOps engineer and maintainer based in Israel with over eight years of experience building cloud-native, highly available systems and Kubernetes operators for large enterprise clients. He has led migrations and architecture for high‑scale platforms across Azure, GCP, and AWS, supporting customers such as an 8K-location restaurant chain, and routinely delivers fast proofs‑of‑concept and production migrations. A hands‑on mentor and technical interviewer, he drives multiple DevOps communities and maintains open‑source tooling—contributing backend improvements to the widely used anacrolix/torrent project and authoring a multi‑tool version manager for Terraform/OpenTofu. Co-founder of two startups, he blends product mindset with deep engineering rigor, with particular focus on performance, code quality, and scalable automation. On GitHub he combines low-level performance fixes with infrastructure automation, reflecting a rare mix of systems-level tinkering and cloud architecture.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
data-storage10
storage10
file-storage10
torrent10
go10
performance-optimization10
bittorrent10
p2p10
data-structure9
data-structures9
heroku6
elasticsearch6
constraint6
aggregations6
polymorphism6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
anacrolix/torrent
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
Full-featured BitTorrent client package and utilities
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 18 commits, 22 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the core functionality of the BitTorrent client. They addressed issues related to storage management, including flushing operations for completed pieces and optimizing data structures. The user also focused on improving performance by employing techniques such as using read locks in the code. Additionally, the user made configuration changes related to hashing processes and network protocols to improve functionality.
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erigontech/mdbx-go
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Bindings for https://gitflic.ru/project/erthink/libmdbx/
Contributions:101 releases, 36 reviews, 755 commits in 2 years 3 months
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