Summary
Alexey Torkhov is a seasoned Linux DevOps Engineer with 18 years in IT and over 15 years building complex, distributed and highly scalable systems. Based in Cyprus, he blends hands-on expertise across cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker), backend services (Node.js, Go, Python) and CI/IaC practices with practical tech leadership—having led teams and designed architectures at Homestretch and Gaijin. His background includes embedded and driver-level work in C, systems administration of Linux labs as a lecturer, and production microservices for logistics and gaming, reflecting unusual breadth from low-level hardware interfaces to large-scale cloud deployments. He emphasizes performance, usability and maintainable architecture, and brings a mathematician’s rigor from his MS in Mathematics to pragmatic engineering decisions.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics at Moscow State University