Alexander Zaslavsky
Software Engineer at Stoke Space
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Zaslavsky is a systems-focused software engineer with over a decade of experience building reliable, low-level and full-stack systems—from embedded Rust for reusable rockets to large-scale backend services. He has driven language and compiler toolchains at Google’s FIDL team, designed developer tooling and migration pipelines at Sentry (including robust self-hosted backup/restore and instance migration), and contributed DevOps automation to the widely used Sentry self-hosted project. Comfortable across C++, Rust, Go, Python and shell tooling, he brings practical expertise in performance, serialization, and data integrity (e.g., snapshot testing and JSON diffing for export/import). Based in Seattle, he combines an architect’s eye (BA in Architecture) with hands-on engineering, often surfacing ergonomic improvements that boost developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Architecture, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Architecture at University of California, Berkeley
English, Russian
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Github contributions (5)
getsentry/self-hosted
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
Sentry, feature-complete and packaged up for low-volume deployments and proofs-of-concept
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:82 reviews, 15 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander's commits primarily focus on enhancing the self-hosted Sentry deployment process. They've introduced a new `sentry-admin.sh` tool for managing the Sentry instance within Docker, improved backup and restore functionality using the tool, and added Google Cloud Workstation configuration. These changes automate tasks and simplify management through shell scripts and docker-compose configurations, improving the user experience and deployment process.
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getsentry/sentry
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:497 reviews, 600 PRs, 1225 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexander focused on improving the backup functionality by adding snapshot tests to validate the export/import flow. The contributions include splitting import/export functionality, adding JSON diffing frameworks, and creating model tests to test the JSON-ification of models marked for export, showing a clear focus on data integrity and reliability. Additionally, the user added support for alerting rules and implemented a more precise datetime serializer. They demonstrated a good understanding of back-end development principles and practices.
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