Alexander Shigin
SRE at Google
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Shigin is an SRE with 17 years of experience building and tuning client-server systems, currently focused on reliability engineering at Google from 2011 onward. He brings deep systems and network expertise across Linux and FreeBSD, combined with low-level programming skills in Python (including C API), C, Cython and shell, and practical experience with C++ and Haskell from earlier roles. His background includes designing and implementing geographic information extraction and high-performance suggest/search backends at Rambler, where he also optimized server statistics and indexing pipelines. Comfortable across networking, parallel programming and daemon development, he’s as likely to profile kernel behavior as to prototype a Cython-accelerated parser. Based in Ireland, he pairs long-term production experience with a hands-on, language‑agnostic approach to solving infrastructure and performance challenges.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Moscow State Industrial University (MSIU)
Github Skills (10)
archived10
branches8
java7
thrift7
apache6
python3
server3
wsgi2
wsgi-server1
asgi1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dreiss/old-thrift
Jul 2008 - May 2009
Archived branches from Apache Incubator Thrift
Contributions:152 commits in 10 months
branchesapachethriftjavaincubator
shigin/tbalancer
Aug 2008 - Sep 2010
Contributions:39 commits in 2 years 1 month
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