Alexander Skvortsov
Developer at Yandex
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Skvortsov is a seasoned developer with 7 years of recorded software experience and a long history of technical leadership stretching back over two decades. Currently at Yandex, he transitioned from extended team-lead and engineering lead roles at Broadridge, HumanConcepts/Saba and other firms, bringing strong people-management chops alongside hands-on engineering. He contributes to open-source—most notably to the popular Flarum forum framework—where he improved mail queuing, deprecated legacy drivers, and added testing utilities, showing attention to maintainability and infrastructure. Trained as an engineer in laser and optical engineering at ITMO University, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic software delivery. Colleagues will find him comfortable operating between backend systems, legacy modernization, and production-grade testing. An understated strength is his track record of migrating and simplifying complex subsystems to reduce technical debt while keeping teams productive.
7 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Laser and Optical Engineering, Engineer's degree, Laser and Optical Engineering at ITMO University
Github Skills (9)
php10
backend10
laravel10
back-end-development10
laravel-mix10
testing10
queue9
queuing9
task-queue9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
flarum/docs
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Flarum documentation.
Contributions:112 reviews, 991 commits, 207 PRs in 2 years 8 months
flarum
askvortsov1/flarum-trust-levels
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:4 reviews, 58 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
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