Alexey Sonkin
Principal Data Architect
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, United States
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Top SchoolAlexey Sonkin is a Principal Data Architect with 16+ years designing and optimizing large-scale, high-availability data platforms across finance, healthcare, e-commerce and cloud services. He combines insider-level knowledge of RDBMS internals (Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, DB2) with hands-on experience building Postgres extensions and implementing cloud data ecosystems on AWS and Azure, including RedShift, Snowflake and Aurora. His work spans the full data stack—VLDB OLTP, data warehouses, streaming (Kafka), NoSQL, ML/LLM pipelines and CI/CD-driven DevOps—often delivering client-facing, multi-tenant analytics and embedded BI. Comfortable as an individual contributor or technical lead in Agile environments, he has repeatedly solved performance and scalability bottlenecks for 24x7 transaction systems and built production-grade data tooling. An embedded-systems tinkerer who also studies Japanese, he brings a rare blend of low-level engine expertise and pragmatic cloud-native architecture.
16 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Sciences Physics, Master of Sciences Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
english, russian
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Github Skills (46)
typescript8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
microsoft8
electron7
deploying7
editor7
deep-learning6
csharp6
android6
visual-studio6
vapoursynth6
mahjong6
machine-learning6
nano6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nwalker/tenhouviewer
Jul 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:183 commits in 1 year 7 months
teplofizik/initramfstool
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 43 commits, 29 pushes in 6 months
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