Alexei Smirnov
Lead Engineer at Advanced Energy Industries
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexei Smirnov is a Lead Engineer based in Mountain View with 11+ years of experience specializing in applied electromagnetics, charged-particle systems, RF/microwave engineering and high-power accelerator technologies. He has led projects from concept through cold and hot testing for DoD/DOE/DARPA sponsors, inventing high-voltage switches, GaN power amplifiers, compact X-ray sources and novel microwave cavities while directing multi-disciplinary teams. His career spans national research institutes and startups, with deep hands-on CAE, diagnostics and system integration expertise for high-average-power and pulsed systems. A PhD-trained accelerator physicist who also designed industrial-scale microwave processing cavities and magnetron heads, he blends theoretical rigor with practical scaling to production. Less obvious: he has repeatedly moved ideas across domains—medical, energy and security—turning advanced vacuum-electronics concepts into deployable hardware.
11 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering of high power electrophysical installations and facilities, Cum Laude Diploma, Master's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering of high power electrophysical installations and facilities, Cum Laude Diploma at National Research Nuclear University (former Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Russian, English
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
virtuman/solana-sniper-bot
Apr 2024 - Dec 2024
Solana Sniper Bot - Proof of Concept
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes in 8 months
virtuman/docker
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:53 pushes in 6 months
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