Summary
Alexander Zacharuk is a Staff Software Developer based in Ottawa with nine years of professional experience focused on big data, automated deployment, and performance metrics. At Cision he progressed from developer to staff engineer, designing integrations, building a distributed big-data backend (HBase, Elasticsearch, AVRO) and creating monitoring and usage-reporting tooling that surfaced system health and client behavior. He champions pragmatic DevOps—leading a migration from Puppet to Ansible—to reduce operational complexity and free teams to work on higher-value problems. Comfortable across the stack, he’s shipped UI components, REST APIs, and data pipelines while serving as a long-term technical contact for third-party partners. He combines a formal software engineering background with a bias for automation and measurable efficiency, often turning operational needs into product-facing features.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at University of Ottawa