Alexey Bystrov is a Senior Node.js Developer and Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems for online games and web services from Saint Petersburg. He specializes in Node.js backends, ETL pipelines in Python, and AWS-managed infra (ECS/Fargate, RDS, DocumentDB, ElastiCache, Kinesis, Lambda), and has shipped profile and tournament services and monitoring/alerting at Evrikagames. A longtime Playkot engineer and freelance maintainer of projects on GitHub (strikeentco), he blends practical full‑stack JavaScript with systems thinking—optimizing performance with Redis, PostgreSQL and event streams. Known for quietly fixing production incidents and rewriting services across stacks (including .NET migrations), he pairs pragmatic problem solving with a hacker’s curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov
Detect the mime type of a Buffer, ReadStream, file path and file name.
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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