Summary
Alexander Valentinov is a Senior Back-End Scala Developer with 10 years of experience, currently building server-side applications at Tinkoff Bank. He specializes in functional Scala ecosystems—cats, cats-effect, ZIO and tofu—bringing rigor in effectful, concurrent system design. A MIPT-trained computer scientist, he blends strong theoretical foundations with practical production engineering. Based in Almaty, he focuses on robust, maintainable back-end architectures and often prefers functional patterns that reduce runtime surprises. Notably, he combines deep library-level knowledge with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable banking services at scale.
10 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)