Alexander Shitikov
Team Lead at Exness
Limassol, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Shitikov is a seasoned technical leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack and mobile products, currently leading engineering at Exness from Limassol. He blends a deep engineering pedigree—spanning backend systems in Node.js/GraphQL and cloud-native platforms to native iOS/Android app architecture—with people leadership, hiring, and cross-functional delivery. His background includes growing and managing large mobile departments, architecting backend services for startups like Meetflows and Chat for Business, and contributing to the popular Vendure e-commerce core by improving caching, transaction management, and GraphQL integrations. Comfortable across languages and platforms, he frequently moves between production coding, CI/CD, and platform integrations (Kubernetes, gcloud), making him effective at closing the gap between product and infrastructure. Known for pragmatic refactors and improving system flexibility, he brings a math-and-systems education to practical engineering trade-offs and team enablement.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Mathematics and system management in IT, Bachelor, Mathematics and system management in IT at Ulyanovsk State University
English
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Github Skills (24)
nestjs10
nodejs10
transactional9
transaction9
develop9
typescript9
typescript-types9
backend9
typescripts9
web-framework8
graphql8
api8
payment-processing8
wordpress-graphql8
app-framework8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vendure-ecommerce/vendure
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
The commerce platform with customization in its DNA.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 17 commits, 16 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on enhancing the Vendure e-commerce platform's core functionalities. Their contributions involved refactoring cache mechanisms for channel and zone services, improving the Admin UI compiler's configuration, and addressing issues related to GraphQL interfaces and custom fields. The user also worked on transaction management within the order service and implemented features for payment method and shipping method integration. These changes indicate a focus on improving the core functionality and flexibility of the e-commerce platform.
apiecommercejavascriptframeworkshopping-cart
trollsoftware/jcomposition
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:11 releases, 64 commits, 30 PRs in 8 months
apicompositioncompile-timecomposition-over-inheritancejava-android
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