Summary
Alexei Shulga is a Principal Developer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, event-driven systems and leading small high-impact teams across Python, PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Lua. He has a practical track record of refactoring monoliths into cost-efficient distributed architectures on GCP and AWS, cutting infrastructure and third-party expenses by tens of thousands annually while reducing manual work by 80%. A Zend-certified engineer and former engineering lead, he excels at delivering fast, safe business-facing change—once enabling non-developers to modify and deploy shipment and quote logic to production in under five minutes. His background spans startups and scale-ups, from founding-engineer roles to senior technical leadership at companies that were later acquired. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he pairs hands-on coding (Scrapy, Django, Flask, Celery, RabbitMQ, SQL/NoSQL) with pragmatic DevOps and CI/CD practices to streamline delivery. An enthusiast of distributed computing and real-time architectures, he focuses on turning complex domain logic into maintainable, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Southern Federal University
English