Alexander Zhukov
Software Architect at GR Software Engineering
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Zhukov is a Software Architect with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, secure and scalable systems, currently advising pharmaceutical clients from Limassol, Cyprus. He combines hands-on fullstack development in C#, .NET Core, React/Angular and Python with architecting distributed microservices, CI/CD pipelines and Azure-based build orchestration. Alexander has modernized monoliths into microservices, improved inter-service security over REST and RabbitMQ, and designed auditable systems such as complex EF Core/MS SQL audit trails for compliance-heavy environments. He is SEI-certified and a DAMA-certified data management professional who also contributes to open-source — enhancing Python concurrency primitives in the notable curio library. Practical troubleshooting (memory leaks, profiling) and manufacturing automation tooling reflect his penchant for solving low-level performance and integration challenges.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics nanotechnology and telecommunications, Master's degree, Physics nanotechnology and telecommunications at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (17)
asynchronous10
python10
async10
locking10
locks10
concurrency10
documentation9
data-structures6
python-modules6
singly-linked-list6
error-handling6
heap6
linked-list6
bitbucket6
bitbucket-pipelines6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dabeaz/curio
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Good Curio!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 22 PRs, 40 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on enhancing and documenting the `curio` library, a library for concurrent I/O in Python. They implemented and documented the `RLock`, `PriorityQueue`, and `LifoQueue` classes, adding reentrancy, priority-based queuing, and LIFO behavior to the library's synchronization primitives. Furthermore, they added crucial validation steps to the `RLock.release` method to ensure the lock is not released by an unauthorized caller, enhancing the library's robustness and reliability. The contributions included improvements to the command-line interface.
curiopython
ZhukovAlexander/rafter
May 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:79 commits, 74 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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