Alex Turkin

UK, Turkey

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Senior

Alexander Turkin is a Backend Engineer with 14 years' experience building reliable, performance-focused services across fintech and security domains, currently at Monzo. Trained as a physicist and biophysicist with a Master’s and PhD‑level research background, he brings a rare blend of analytical modelling and hands-on systems programming to software engineering. He has deep experience in Erlang, C/C++, Python and AWS, and has driven backend features and platform work at Alert Logic including containerized, event-driven services. An active open-source contributor, he implemented low-level .doc parsing and core FBReader features and authored a custom Qt waiting-spinner, showing comfort across both UI components and binary file formats. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex, scientific problems into pragmatic, production-ready systems. He’s based in Cardiff and enjoys applying curiosity honed in lab research to solve real-world business and technical challenges.

15 years of coding experience

Github Skills (13)

uid10

c-language10

filetype10

front-end-development10

ui-design10

qt10

cprogramming-language10

file-format10

data-analysis10

data-structure9

widgets9

data-structures9

web-widgets9

Programming languages (3)

JavaShellC++

Github contributions (5)

snowwlex/QtWaitingSpinner

Nov 2012 - Jun 2022

configurable custom Qt widget for showing waiting spinner icon

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 years 8 months

Contributions summary:Alex implemented a custom Qt widget for displaying a waiting spinner, demonstrating UI component development. They wrote the initial version of the spinner, added full include paths and fixed bugs related to frequently calling the start() method. The user also refactored the codebase, including changes to header files and the main application file.

geometer/FBReaderJ

Jun 2012 - Oct 2012

Official FBReaderJ project repository

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:8 commits in 4 months

Contributions summary:Alex contributed significantly to the development of a MS Word doc plugin. Their work involved implementing features to read and process the data from .doc files, including reading and parsing of core structures like the piece table, bookmarks, styles, and images. They also addressed errors in formatting structures, which allowed the plugin to better handle and display the contents of .doc files. This indicates a strong understanding of the internal structure of .doc files.

java

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