Alexander Strizhakov
Software Engineer
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Strizhakov is a senior backend engineer with a decade of experience building high-throughput web and distributed systems across FinTech, AdTech, and social platforms, currently based in Dubai. He specializes in Elixir/Phoenix and has led performance-driven migrations and architecture work—most notably scaling a redirect API to handle 15k+ concurrent RPS on modest hardware. An active open-source contributor, he improved the gun adapter in the widely used Tesla HTTP client and helped develop Pleroma’s federation and admin tooling. A pragmatic full-life-cycle engineer, he combines deep systems-level optimizations, test and CI improvements, and real-time background processing (Oban) to deliver reliable production services. He also co-founded Pandora tracker, bringing product- and metrics-minded instincts to engineering decisions.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computing and IT, Bachelor's degree, Computing and IT at The Open University
Github Skills (6)
http-client10
httpc10
elixir10
httplib10
testing9
middleware5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-tesla/tesla
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
The flexible HTTP client library for Elixir, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 64 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the `gun` adapter, a flexible HTTP client library for Elixir, adding and refactoring features related to the `gun` HTTP client. These changes involved modifying adapter options, managing connection states, and implementing response streaming. The user also improved the testing coverage, fixed various bugs related to requests, and enhanced the library's overall functionality.
ibrowsehackneyhttp-clientclient-libraryelixir
alex-strizhakov/ds
Mar 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 11 months
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