Alexander Shchapov
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAlexander Shchapov is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale, fault-tolerant systems, currently focused on Flights at Booking.com from Amsterdam. He has deep expertise in global traffic distribution, DNS, API gateways and scaling high-throughput services, having progressed from core infrastructure roles into SRE leadership. Earlier roles include leading backend migrations, schema redesigns and near-zero-downtime platform moves for high-load services in gaming and healthcare, demonstrating strong systems thinking and operational rigor. He blends hands-on Python and distributed-systems engineering with practical production experience in database partitioning, API design and traffic management. Colleagues would notice his knack for turning incubator prototypes into production-grade services and for designing resilient data and traffic architectures. Trained as a systems engineer (MS/BS), he pairs academic grounding with a proven track record across consumer travel, gaming, and healthcare domains.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Ukrainian, Dutch
Github Skills (200)
dashboard10
postgresql10
clojure10
data-visualization10
database10
mysql10
analytics10
slack10
python-requests10
fastest10
data-analysis10
nim-lang10
visualization10
peewee10
dbase9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
alexanderad/highlighter
Mar 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:44 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 1 month
alexanderad/conways-game-of-life
Dec 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:76 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
node-jsjavascriptd3-jsconway-s-game-of-lifegame-of
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