Alexander Tsukanov is a Team Lead and software engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems across companies like AgileEngine, Ciklum, GlobalLogic, and SoftServe. He has led teams and delivered production microservices and CI/CD improvements in healthcare and search domains, including a SOLR-based search engine and multiple connector integrations for data replication platforms. As a contributor to the prominent open-source Airbyte project, he fixed connector bugs and enhanced BigQuery destination handling, demonstrating practical expertise in ETL/ELT data integration. Comfortable both leading and contributing hands-on, he combines technical refactoring skills with mentoring and interview experience to raise team quality. Based in Kharkiv, he pairs formal software engineering training with a track record of turning complex integration and data-format challenges into reliable production features.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist's Degree Computer Software Engineering, Specialist's Degree Computer Software Engineering at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:130 reviews, 33 commits, 42 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the source code of Airbyte, a data integration platform. Their work involved fixing bugs related to data type handling, specifically with the Oracle and MySQL connectors, and the BigQuery destination connector. Furthermore, the user enhanced the BigQuery-denormalized destination by incorporating the conversion from JSON Datetime to BigQuery format and addressing issues related to JSON with $ref definition keys.
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