Alexander Tarasov
Senior Software Engineer at Sentry (sentry.io)
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolAlexander Tarasov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vienna with 11 years of experience building and securing backend systems for high‑scale services. Currently at Sentry, he contributes to core error‑tracking and performance monitoring features, having implemented replay deletion queues, IPv6 support for deny lists, and security hardening like CSP beginnings and GitHub secret scanning checks. His background as a DevOps and systems engineer across fintech, media, and SaaS companies gives him deep operational expertise in infrastructure, automation and incident resilience. He blends pragmatic engineering with security-minded thinking, often tackling edge cases that improve reliability and compliance. Colleagues know him for steady, methodical problem solving—true to his credo “Practice makes perfect.”
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer Science, Specialist, Computer Science at Altai State University
English, Russian, Serbian, Greek, German
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Github Skills (27)
python10
django10
it-security10
security10
api-design9
restful-api9
sec9
content-security-policy9
api-rest9
error-logging9
google-cloud-storage9
rest-api9
sys8
system-design8
git8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:91 reviews, 5 commits, 295 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the back-end functionality of the Sentry project by adding a new queue for deleting replays and by implementing and testing IPv6 support for IP address deny lists. They also worked on initial implementations for content security policy (CSP) and improved security by incorporating checks for GitHub secret scanning. Further contributions include rate limiting on user password changes and fixing bugs related to organization and team member management.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
oioki/terraform-provider-aws
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
Terraform AWS provider
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
providerterraform-modulesaws-terraform-providerterraformterraform-provider
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