Summary
Alexey Akhundov is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building backend and data platform solutions, currently working at Yandex after a senior engineering role at Sber. While completing a Computer Science degree at HSE, he progressed from a Java junior developer in the banking sector to delivering scalable systems for large Russian tech companies. He focuses on backend engineering and data infrastructure, with practical experience in high-throughput, production environments. At 23 he balances academic study with substantive industry impact, reflecting rapid professional growth and an appetite for complex system design. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who brings both implementation depth and a strong product-aware mindset to platform challenges.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Higher School of Economics