Alexey Potakhov
Director Of Engineering, Platform
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlexey Potakhov is a Director of Engineering focused on platform and backend systems with two decades of software engineering experience and a decade in senior technical leadership roles. He has deep hands-on expertise in C++ and Go, having designed high-throughput messaging and low-latency video streaming services that process terabytes daily and a custom packet-filtering engine used for company-wide DDoS mitigation. Alexey blends systems architecture, cryptography-aware protocol design, and cloud-native deployment practices, having specified end-to-end encrypted communication protocols and built decentralized delivery components. He has a track record of growing teams and organizations—from leading a consulting firm’s expansion to managing backend-focused engineers at Meteor Mobile—while remaining a principal contributor to core services. Based in New York with an academic background in computer science, he brings a rare combination of low-level performance tuning and strategic platform leadership.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics
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Github Skills (18)
vlan9
juniper8
ospf8
nfv8
freebsd7
dpdk7
bgp7
python6
logging4
logger4
keyboard2
usb2
firmware2
atmel2
rp20402
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
potakhov/cache
Jun 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
potakhov/loge
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Simple drop-in logger extension library for the standard Go log package
Contributions:9 releases, 35 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
golangdrop-inloggerloggingthe-standard
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