Alexey Kalinichenko
Co-Founder And CTO at Step Mobile
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexey Kalinichenko is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with over 10 years of experience building scalable payments, real-time collaboration, and communications systems. He has led architecture and teams at Square and Token and co-founded Step Mobile to rethink banking for teens, bringing product-focused technical leadership to fintech. His hands-on background spans core infrastructure—ISO 8583 integrations, reverse HTTP proxy architectures, and lock/routing services for Google Docs—plus VoIP, SIP stacks, and networking at Google and Microsoft. Comfortable switching between deep implementation and high-level strategy, he’s known for simplifying complex integrations and scaling critical services during periods of rapid growth. Based in San Francisco, he pairs academic training in computer engineering with a pragmatic bent for fault-tolerant, low-latency systems and side projects in basic machine learning.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Engineering, Masters Computer Engineering at Syracuse University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (19)
rest9
kotlin8
grpc8
google-map8
http8
restful-api8
async7
google7
coroutines7
react6
addon6
rendering6
kotlin-coroutines6
maps5
home-assistant4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
akalini/grpcbridge
Aug 2016 - Sep 2020
HTTP RESTful API to gRPC bridge. HTTP framework agnostic.
Contributions:2 reviews, 51 commits, 30 PRs in 4 years 1 month
grpcrestrestful-api
tokenio/circleci
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 day
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