Alexander Smirnov
Staff Software Engineer at Proofpoint
Woodley, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Smirnov is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of formal experience and over two decades in development and engineering leadership, currently driving architecture and delivery at Proofpoint in the UK. He combines deep hands-on coding ability with project and team management skills honed as a co-founder and engineering manager, routinely translating client requirements into robust design specifications and timely, high-quality software. His background spans embedded systems and physics at the master’s level, giving him a strong systems-thinking approach to complex technical problems. Known for precise, reliable delivery, he brings entrepreneurial instincts from running Dilicon LLC and wide cross-border experience across Belarus, the US, and the UK.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at Belarusian State UniversityMaster's degree Software Technologies for Embedded Systems, Master's degree Software Technologies for Embedded Systems at The School of Business and Management of Technology of BSU
English, Russian
Github Skills (105)
rtsp10
px410
realtime10
windows10
station10
qt10
mavlink10
charts10
linux10
camera10
stream10
object-detection10
surveillance10
tensorrt10
ip10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
weblifeio/chromium
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 3 months
asmirnou/libcamera-apps
Mar 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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