Summary
Alexey Astafyev is a seasoned Tech Lead with 13 years building high-availability backend systems and leading cross-functional teams across Ruby, Elixir/Erlang, and modern JavaScript stacks. He has repeatedly reduced technical debt and delivered production software under tight deadlines for clients and large telecom customers, blending hands-on coding with architecture and CI/CD ownership. Alexey has set up cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI) and guided teams on observability and fault-tolerance for mission-critical services. Comfortable across the stack, he brings deep experience in Redis/Postgres-backed systems, real-time platforms, and scalable Rails/Elixir services. A Specialist in Computer and Informational Science, he pairs strong academic grounding with practical expertise stretching back to embedded/RTOS work and media streaming projects. Notably, his background in Erlang/OTP and Elixir gives him a rare edge on building resilient, concurrent systems in commercial web products.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Information Technology, GPA: 4.8, Specialist, Information Technology, GPA: 4.8 at Ulyanovsk State Technical University
english (upper-intermediate level), french (elementary level), Russian