Alexandr Kovtunov
Director Of Engineering at Transect
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexandr Kovtunov is a pragmatic Director of Engineering with 12+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling full‑stack web platforms across Ruby, Python, and modern JavaScript ecosystems. He has repeatedly converted startup needs into reliable, measurable outcomes—leading teams through architecture, sharding and replication for large GIS datasets, and post‑acquisition rebranding and integrations. Comfortable rolling up his sleeves, Alexandr blends technical depth in PostgreSQL, cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Heroku), and observability with operational rigor around incident response, release management, and code review automation. He’s built and mentored high‑performing teams (10–13+ engineers), driving productivity improvements and engineering KPIs while preserving delivery quality under tight timelines. An active open‑source committer and longtime Rails practitioner, he pairs curiosity (cars, photography, and cats) with a knack for simplifying complex systems into maintainable, scalable products. Based in Irvine, CA, he thrives at the intersection of technical leadership and practical execution in fast‑moving startups.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information management systems and technologies, Master's degree Information management systems and technologies at Dnipro University of TechnologyDnipropetrovsk Lyceum of Information TechnologiesMaster's degree Web Science, Master's degree Web Science at University of Koblenz and Landau
Russian, Ukrainian, English, German
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Github Skills (98)
ruby10
mapview10
google-maps10
cart10
currency10
maps10
spree10
oop10
marketplace10
react-native10
multi-tenant10
javascript9
sidekiq9
google-translate9
wkhtmltopdf9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
c7devteam/addressbook_engine
Nov 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:26 commits in 10 months
AKovtunov/ruby_snake
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:23 commits in 2 months
gamesnakerubysnake-gameruby-on
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